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...year would be given an additional $125 and those with a family income under $60,000 would receive $75. However, these stipends would only be valid at the Coop (and in the textbook department, specifically), to ensure that students must spend the money on books. The proposal has received widespread support from the student body—it received a strong endorsement from the Undergraduate Council and its petition has been signed by over 1,000 students.C-CAP is worthy of University support. Due to their central role in a Harvard education, textbooks should not be categorized together with food, office...
...even Bush knows he can't simply ignore what's fueling that kind of negative feedback. So the question that hovers over the trip is whether Bush and Washington have finally learned to address all that anger in their own backyard. That resentment stems from both a widespread feeling that Bush - who came to office pledging to be Latin America's mejor amigo - instead essentially abandoned the region when it refused to line up behind his Iraq invasion, and a just as pervasive belief that Washington-backed capitalist reforms have helped widen the region's gap between rich and poor...
...abruptly presented. They violated design principles endorsed by the community in the North Allston Neighborhood Strategic Framework for Planning. The University’s Allston Development Group compounded the problem with its dismissive response to objections posed by the neighborhood’s Harvard-Allston Task Force. Now widespread opposition to the sitting and scale of Harvard’s proposed art building has caused that project to be put on hold—and gives both sides a chance to reconsider ways to repair what has become at best a rocky relationship...
...January interview on PBS Newshour, Jim Lehrer asked Bush why he hasn’t involved more Americans and American interests in the war by calling for more widespread sacrifices. The response: “I think a lot of people are in this fight. I mean, they sacrifice peace of mind when they see the terrible images of violence on TV every night...
...wrong with China's mining sector. Media reports in the wake of the disaster put production from the mine, licensed to produce only 90,000 tons a year, at roughly four times that amount. And according to accounts in China's state-owned media, which gave the accident widespread coverage--another sign of Beijing's concern--the mine operators broke numerous other safety regulations, including the number of miners allowed in the mine and the depth at which they worked. But the principal operator of the mine, according to the press reports, felt protected by the fact that his brother...