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After a half-decade of stagnation, the Pell Grant—a government-sponsored form of financial aid benefiting 700 low-income Harvard undergraduates—is poised for an increase. The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to raise the maximum Pell Grant by $260, or 6 percent. Yesterday, President Bush announced a budget calling for an increase of $550, which would boost the grant to a maximum of $4,600 per year. The director of financial aid for the College, Sally C. Donahue, welcomed the move to increase federal funding for needy students, citing a lack of action...
...part of the group’s original plan, he could not account for the whereabouts of the protestors for the entirety of the event. “I don’t know what everyone of our members did,” he said. According to an article Wednesday in the Boston University Daily Free Press, the group became the target of campus police last week after they entered a classroom prior to a Jan. 23 lecture. “People see [LaRouche members] as a nuisance and don’t realize that they have no business being...
...Molly was a hero," her beloved Texas Observer declared Wednesday evening in its annoucement of her death. "She was a mentor. She was a liberal. She was a patriot...
...than for being a Senator. Will he have the muscle to build a coalition on the most divisive issue of his time? Last November's midterm elections could help. Democrats eager to keep political momentum may accept the softer but still critical language in Warner's resolution. Late Wednesday, key Democrats joined forces with Warner. Republicans feeling the pressure of voters' anger over Iraq can support his bill under the shelter of his seniority and military expertise. Warner so far has 11 co-sponsors, five of them from his party; in all, he needs 11 G.O.P. votes to override...
There is a an old saying in Texas: "I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could." Columnist and author Molly Ivins, who died Wednesday evening after a seven-year battle with inflammatory breast cancer, was one of the most notable transplanted Texans of recent years and, like her good friend the late Gov. Ann Richards, she came to embody a certain kind of Texas woman - passionate, funny, her wit folksy but sharp, sparing no one, not even herself...