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Merit aid has replaced need-based aid as colleges and universities have encountered a larger pool of those meeting the requirements for financial aid with the economy slumping. As a result, wealthier students—because they often attend richer schools—are receiving more aid than lower-income students, the report stated...
...school has always struggled financially relative to “our wealthier sisters across the river—such as the Business School and the Medical School,” Newman said...
...whitewashed mansion he shares with his wife and two children in Constantia, outside Cape Town, security guards patrol along the neatly trimmed hedges, and a closed-circuit television camera keeps watch from the top of a wrought-iron security gate. Such security measures are common in South Africa's wealthier suburbs, but neighbors describe Thatcher, 51, the son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as a security-obsessed recluse. "He's a mysterious character," says one. For such a private man, last Wednesday's morning raid by South Africa's Scorpion police unit must have been particularly galling...
...mortality rate, for example, is twice as high among blacks as among whites. Children living in poverty are at greater risk for violent crime. And while the U.S. may boast of soaring high-school-graduation rates, children in poor families are still six times as likely as those in wealthier families to drop out. "So much of this is driven by child poverty," says Parker. "In 2002, more than 12 million children were poor, and those figures were up from both...
...talent, regularly supplying a majority of the national team's players. But despite its tradition of representing Ukrainian pride (particularly against Russian teams during the Soviet era), the accepted wisdom in independent Ukraine is that soccer success requires buying the best talent available - and given the fact that far wealthier clubs in Western Europe are going to take the cream of the world's soccer talent, clubs in the Ukraine and Russia - and France and Belgium - who can't afford top-tier Brazilians, Frenchmen, Scandinavians or even the established stars of African football have looked increasingly to Africa's second...