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...began to decrease in frequency because, well, Harvard began the season winning and hasn’t stopped—the Crimson now stands undefeated at 9-0.At first it was no big deal. Harvard padded its record in the early going against the likes of ECAC creampuffs Quinnipiac and Brown and middle-of-the-road conference foes Princeton and Yale to come out of the gate 4-0. Good, yes. But also expected, and nothing to start shuffling around the top spots in the national rankings for.Then, starting on Nov. 23, everything changed. Beginning with its 5-0 win over...
...experiences of Conti-Brown and other students from disadvantaged economic backgrounds were what led in part to the creation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI) in February 2004 and its subsequent expansion in 2006. Parents in families with incomes of less than $60,000 are no longer expected to contribute to their children’s costs of attending at Harvard. Families that earn a total income of between $60,000 and $80,000 have their expected contributions reduced, and are supported by additional initiatives...
...Conti-Brown, who had worked informally with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid and then-University President Lawrence H. Summers on the project, would become HFAI’s 2004-2005 undergraduate director. He and a group of other students pushed hard for the recruiting of students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. HFAI student coordinators spent the summer after HFAI was announced calling thousands of low-income students across the students, encouraging them to apply regardless of concerns about Harvard’s high price...
...perhaps building a diverse student body is enough. “Forcing people to make friends from a different socioeconomic background is, at best laughable,” Conti-Brown, now a student at Stanford Law School, points out. “All that can be done is to continue admitting a critical mass of students, increasing the diversity of the student body [so] that, hopefully diverse friendships can form naturally...
...bizarre saga has captivated Britain, seeping even into the top echelons of public life. During Prime Minister Gordon Brown's weekly Parliamentary grilling on Wednesday, Conservative leader David Cameron hammered the British leader for forgetting past promises: "He wants us to think he is like the man in the canoe - he hasn't been around for the past five years...