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...applicants for other grants, they can coordinate their funding decisions. In the past, students received separate award letters from each institution and were responsible for reporting their awards to other offices. Now, these letters are condensed into one check that lists which offices provided which portion of the total money awarded. “Now you don’t have one student who comes away with more money than he can really use at the expense of some students not getting enough,” says Meg B. Swift ’93, director of Student Employment and Undergraduate...
...Yale Daily News. Harvard’s tuition hike is lower than Princeton’s, however. Princeton will raise its price by 3.9 percent to $45,695. Last year, the New Jersey university froze its tuition costs but its overall student fees rose by 4.2 percent. Total costs at private, four-year universities for this academic year rose on average 5.9 percent over last year, according to the College Board, while the inflation rate from February 2007 to February 2008 was 4.0 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed," said Justice Antonin Scalia. In a spirited back-and-forth with the district's lawyer, former solicitor general Walter Dellinger, Chief Justice John Roberts scoffed at the D.C. ban's sweeping restrictions. "What is reasonable about a total ban on possession?" he asked. Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles or shotguns be kept unloaded, with the trigger locked - neutralized its self-defense purposes. If an intruder materialized, he asked, could the weapon be readied in time? Both he and Justice...
...Tabulations, determined how often in the period between 1600 and 2400 A.D. Good Friday, Purim, Narouz and the Eid would occur in the same week. The answer is nine times in 800 years. Then they tackled the odds that they would converge on a two-day period. And the total is ... only once: tomorrow. And that's not even counting Magha Puja and Small Holi...
...almost none of tomorrow's holidays actually follows that calendar. All Muslim holy days, for instance, are calculated on a lunar system. Keyed to the phases of the moon, Islam's 12 months are each 29 and a half days long, for a total of 354 days a year, or 11 days fewer than on ours. That means the holidays rotate backward around the Gregorian calendar, occurring 11 days earlier each year. That is why you can have an "easy Ramadan" in the spring, when going without water all day is relatively easy, or a hard one in the summer...