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...total of about 6,600 undergraduates. The rise in aid for what the College calls middle-income families reflects a concern that Harvard is doing better at attracting students from the extremes of the financial spectrum than it is at attracting those in between. Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in an interview yesterday that promising middle-income students are increasingly foregoing applications to the Ivy League in lieu of prestigious in-state schools that provide competitive tuition. “There’s a prevailing misconception that there is no financial aid available...
Harvard took sixth overall by accumulating 301 points, one better than the efforts of Hobart and William Smith Colleges in seventh...
...Harvard professor and Moynihan’s close friend, who said the deceased politician never assigned blame to individuals for the often high rates of poverty, unemployment, and incarceration in the black community. Instead, Moynihan saw slavery and persisting discrimination as the main culprits, Wilson said. Geyser University Professor William J. Wilson said that local editorials at the time “embellished” Moynihan’s words and quoted only his most “bold” and “attention-grabbing” statements out of context. Following the speeches, attendees had the opportunity...
Wearing a slightly ill-suited printed Ugandan shirt, Bishop Guernsey earnestly called Uganda his "spiritual home." Guernsey is the most recent in a series of American bishops pledging allegiance to African churches that have strong anti-homosexuality stances. In September alone, Americans William Atwood and William Murdoch were also consecrated by an African church, the Anglican Church of Kenya. Anglicans worldwide have been divided since the U.S. Episcopal Church, the Anglican Church's American branch, consecrated Gene Robinson as Anglicanism's first openly gay bishop four years...
...last year, the President has been criticized on everything from his failed attempt to overhaul immigration laws to the war in Iraq. But the biggest betrayal, in conservatives' eyes, has been the complete lack of fiscal discipline. In editorial after editorial the movement's giants such as Richard Viguerie, William F. Buckley and George Will have all attacked the President's spending and warned the party that they are bleeding grassroots support. Viguerie went so far as to write a book released last year called Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause...