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...signed on to a new federal matching program to support financial aid for veterans, but the University's units differed widely in their financial commitment to the initiative—reflecting a tradition of decentralized decision-making at Harvard that current leaders have often sought to curtail.The recently-approved Yellow Ribbon Program—part of a new G.I. Bill that promises to pay up to the maximum in-state public undergraduate tuition rate for veterans who have served at least three years after 9/11—allows institutions to enter into agreements with the Department of Veterans Affairs...
...yellow caution light has come from the Congressional Budget Office, the fiscal scorekeeper for everything proposed on Capitol Hill. In recent days, the CBO has issued preliminary estimates suggesting that both major bills in the Senate - including the one being worked on by the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the one by the Finance Committee - are not only going to add significantly to the deficit, but also that they'll do so without delivering what lawmakers have promised in terms of bringing down health-care costs and covering the uninsured...
...harder than anyone else does. Over the past three decades, Steves, now 54, has written more than 30 European guidebooks, phrase books and travel companions. Walk from Rome's Campo dei Fiori to the Spanish Steps on any evening this summer and you will spy his blue-and-yellow books under countless arms. Last week, 10 of the 20 best-selling European travel books on Amazon.com had Steves' name on the cover. When he's not updating his guides, Steves gives speeches, pens a newspaper column, hosts radio and television shows, runs group tours and does all this with...
...soldier scholar,” adding that Faust is similar to Petraeus in that she is “a scholar who has written a lot about soldiers.” Faust prefaced her comments with the announcement that Harvard will join the GI Bill Yellow Ribbon Education Program next fall, which will provide substantial financial assistance for up to 150 military veterans to attend Harvard College, the Extension School, or one of Harvard’s graduate schools. The tuition assistance provided by Harvard will be matched by the federal government. ROTC has not been welcome at Harvard since...
...Georgia, but the economy survived largely due to Russia's assistance and the illegal trade of arms, drugs and counterfeit money. That trade has fallen off since the tension on Georgia's border with South Ossetia and now unemployment is soaring under the separatist region's red, white and yellow flag. Kokoity's extra-parliamentary opposition, such as Vyacheslav Gobozov of the Fatherland Party, accuses him of theft and corruption...