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...actor in a rubber suit and ran the camera at high speed, making Godzilla's movements seem appropriately ponderous when played back. The suit, however, weighed 220 lbs. (100 kg), and the actor inside it lost 20 lbs. (9 kg) in six weeks of shooting. With a budget of $1.5 million, Gojira (Godzilla) was the most expensive Japanese film yet made, and it wreaked havoc at the box office. An English-dubbed version, Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, with added footage of actor Raymond Burr playing an American reporter, was a hit overseas...
Harvard has once again vaulted ahead of its peers in eliminating socioeconomic barriers to attending college. This time, the University made three different improvements that totaled to a $22 million per year increase in Harvard College’s financial aid budget. The headliner was a vast increase in aid to middle and upper-middle class students. But just as important are Harvard’s termination of loan-based aid and the exclusion of home equity from aid calculations. The new policy will limit annual tuition payments to no more than 10 percent of income for families making between...
...university would make a major announcement regarding financial aid in January. Harvard’s new financial aid plan, affecting families that have historically received less financial support, requires a greater financial commitment from the College. This expansion in aid will increase the College’s grant budget from $98 million to almost $120 million, significantly more than the $2 million increase in the budget when HFAI was created. “With the HFAI program, we were already awarding significant need-based financial aid,” said Director of Financial Aid Sally C. Donahue, contrasting HFAI with...
...fitting in the context of University President Drew G. Faust’s much-publicized initiative to promote the arts on campus. And the Ph.D. program will require almost no new funds: Given the program’s small size and the availability of resources, neither a dramatically expanded budget nor new hiring will be necessary to get the program off the ground...
...conference call with reporters this afternoon, University President Drew G. Faust said that the program, which will increase College's financial aid grant budget by $22 million—more than 20 percent—will be paid for using a variety of sources, including Faust's discretionary fund and funds from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...