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Approximately 66 percent of the foreign students in the Class of 1994 are receiving financial aid, a figure nearly identical to that of enrolled U.S. citizens, and the average scholarship awarded to a foreign student is greater than that of his or her American counterpart...
Financial support from alumni is a vital component of financial aid and the University's academic programs. Without this support we would not have been able to maintain the current need-blind admission policy. Last year, for example, over $36 million were contributed by alumni to the Harvard College Fund. Restricted scholarship fund (donors "restricted" their use to scholarships) are the largest single source of our financial aid budget. Very nearly all of those funds--that together yield more than half of college financial aid-were established by alumni. In fact nine out of every 10 scholarship dollars are provided...
...debated over the years by all members of the Harvard and Radcliffe community. The resulting admissions procedures have helped to produce a student body with the strongest potential scholars in the country as well as individual with many other excellences. Help from alumni in admissions recruiting and financial aid has made it possible to attract the most talented students from every segment of society. We are fortunate to have a highly diverse group of very able students, with a wide variety of talents, and the kinds of personal strengths that make them fascinating roommates, dining hall conversationalists, extracurricular enthusiasts...
...this year, although the U.S. has given Panama $130 million to pay off arrears on its $5 billion foreign debt, Washington has laid out only $70 million in direct aid. "What we're giving them is not even equal to direct damages caused by the invasion," says former U.S. Ambassador Ambler Moss, who estimates the destruction's price tag to be $1 billion. Meanwhile, the surge in global oil prices has dealt the country an unexpected and potentially disastrous blow. Totally dependent on imported oil, Panama expects to see its petroleum costs double to $300 million next year. Says Comptroller...
Each month the U.S. intends to use $1 billion of the total $20 billion in contributions to help support its military operations in the region. With $13 billion of that earmarked for economic aid, and with the size of the U.S. force growing significantly, a shortfall will develop if the confrontation continues for many months. If that happens, Baker says he will go back for more...