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According to data compiled by GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol, Harvard offered a $19,700 stipend and two summers of support to incoming humanities students this year. The packages fell short of those offered at other universities, such as MIT, Stanford, and Princeton, which all provided at least $20,000 and four summers of financial support...
Spoken like some grungy geek from Seattle. Except that in China, apparently, the definition of social security might include a stipend from the army...
...Last summer, for example, Harris spent eight weeks with free housing and on a $1,500 stipend attending the Charles Koch Seminar. Through the seminar, he was able to meet other libertarian college students and spend six weeks in an internship at the Cato Institute. The force behind the majority of these libertarian contacts and grants is the Institute for Humane Studies. The Institute prides itself on promoting policies aimed at liberty—typically in the form of libertarianism among college and graduate students. This aid materializes in the form of internships, summer seminars, and annual donations of around...
Once Sherif is deemed fit for release, he will be sent home and, like the 700 or so others who have been discharged by the center, monitored indefinitely. Ex-detainees are given a monthly stipend--typically about $700--and sometimes a new car. Family members are enlisted to help watch over these men, who are strongly encouraged to start families of their own. Having children, the thinking goes, lessens the temptation to rejoin the jihad, which is why the program makes available upwards of $20,000 for an ex-detainee's wedding...
...impeding “working class musicians,” it’s the avarice of the men in the same boardroom where Steven gets his morning muffin. Still graver is the case of Ms. Thomas, a young, single mother who was unable to afford, on a stipend from her tribe, the costly legal counsel of technology experts who might have buttressed her assertion that she was innocent of the RIAA’s accusations. Of course the association’s lawyers have every right to prosecute on copyright law, but their insistence on heavy-handed punishment...