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Columbia released a similar statement yesterday announcing that undergraduates at both Columbia College and The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science would entirely eliminate parental contributions for families that earn annual incomes below...
...initiative, announced Friday, eliminates tuition costs for families earning less than $75,000 annually. About 30 percent of MIT students fall into this category and will have their tuition covered by a combination of federal and state grants, outside scholarships, and MIT financial aid, according to a university statement. Students in this income group will no longer be expected to take out student loans and should be able to graduate debt-free through work-study or participation in paid research. According to MIT’s Director of Student Financial Aid, Daniel Barkowitz, the university’s aid initiative...
...Amidst a swirl of controversy, Power quit over the "monster" slur, but the campaign might have actually been lucky she left, since her departure came just before her Iraq comments got wide play. The personal insult was gratuitous and crude, but the Iraq statement threatened to undermine one of the central promises of Obama's campaign. No one expected Power to spew invective, but when your top foreign policy adviser tells an overseas interviewer that you do not really mean something that you have put at the center of your campaign, well, Chicago, you have a problem...
...currently 12 flights a week on the state-owned national carriers connecting Delhi and Lahore and Mumbai and Karachi. The new deal will allow up to three airlines from each country to fly between a wider range of cities including, possibly, between the two capitals. The agreement, a joint statement said, will improve "people to people contact, business and trade activities." Business people on both sides of the border have long argued that trade and investment could ease tensions between the two states...
...Fillon's statement epitomizes the efforts by French conservatives to "de-Sarkocize" municipal elections that offered voters their first chance to express themselves since the President's approval rating went into free fall. Even before Sunday's results, many conservative candidates had sought to disassociate their campaigns from the increasingly unpopular President. Several removed references to Sarkozy and even the name of his Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party from their campaign posters and literature, and many declined presidential offers to stump on their behalf...