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...later today the school's trustees are expected to do something about it. Following the example of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Louisville is joining more than two dozen other schools that have begun promising a free education - books, tuition, and room and board - to students from poor families. Students accepted at Louisville who meet income guidelines will be guaranteed that if federal aid won't cover their costs - all of them - the universities will make up the difference. Schools like Miami of Ohio and UNC-Asheville have adopted similar programs...
...search committee presented the Board of Overseers with a private list of 30 candidates early last month. According to several sources close to search committee members, however, the committee was only seriously considering a dozen or so of those nominees at the time...
...search committee presented the Board of Overseers with a private list of 30 candidates early last month. According to several sources close to search committee members, however, the committee was only seriously considering a dozen or so of those nominees at the time...
...committee searching for the next Harvard president has declined to comment whether gender will play any role in the search, according to spokesman John Longbrake. But the most recently confirmed list of candidates included at least seven female contenders among its more than two dozen candidates, including the female leaders of Brown, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Cambridge...
...grown too fast and we still do not have the systems or manpower to deal with this many airlines." Authorities in Makassar, South Sulawesi-the airport closest to the presumed crash site-were unable to pinpoint where the airplane went down. Early reports that the wreckage and a dozen survivors had been found in the remote mountains of Sulawesi-reports picked up by aviation officials and the airline itself-later proved to be based on nothing but local rumor. The last coordinates of the plane, at 30,000 feet, were in fact provided by Singaporean authorities, raising questions over Indonesia...