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...also canceled similar agreements with other schools including MIT and the University of Michigan. The abrupt termination of the program left Harvard administrators scrambling to find ways to maintain their commitment to financial aid across the University. University President Drew G. Faust has repeatedly said that Harvard will sustain current levels of graduate student financial aid for the next year—which she has deemed one of the University’s top priorities—even at the expense of other programs in school operating budgets. In the past year, the University had rolled out a series...
...choice of unusual material actually turns out to be a strength, but his imagery lacks clarity. He has reduced his poetry to little more than people watching, and in the wake of this realization, it’s natural to ask whether street-side voyeurism is enough to sustain. In his poem “An Old Harvard Man,” Holder risks telling the story of a man who urinates on the John Harvard statue. “And there you were / Dumbfounded. / Walking the ward / After angrily spraying / The statue of John Harvard / A crimson...
...initial plan for the first several weeks, but by the six-month mark, they were consuming only 225 calories less than they expended - about a third of the goal - according to a calculation based on overall weight loss. "It's very difficult to reduce your calories enough to really sustain a lot of weight loss," Loria says. (See pictures of facial yoga...
...maybe it's better to make a more gradual change in intake," says Sacks. "That's what I recommend to my patients: let's try to pick a gradual or realistic reduction in calories that's not going to make you really hungry a lot and that you can sustain day after...
Maintaining a minimal budget deficit is essential in order to avoid saddling future generations with a hefty economic burden. On both sides of the political aisle, economists agree that maintaining a large federal budget deficit decreases national saving and lowers living standards in the long run. We cannot sustain deficits at 10 percent of GDP—as they are now—without significant consequences in the future...