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...commitments to financial aid and its educational priorities, Jackson said in an interview with The Crimson Monday. “These are material changes that will affect our budgets in future years,” Jackson said. “We will need to reduce our staff levels in order to live within our new means.” But at this stage, the magnitude of future layoffs remains unclear, and will depend on the participation rate that the school sees in an early retirement incentive program for staff that will conclude next week, according to Marie H. Bowen...
Numerous Lebanese are facing a difficult choice in the upcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled to take place on June 7. According to the New York Times, donors from across the globe are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into Lebanon in order to impact the elections. The Saudi Arabian government is involved, with an aim to buy votes in support of the election of Saad Hariri and his allies. For the average voter that could mean $800 or so in exchange for a vote—not to mention the dignity, free speech, and political rights that could also be taken...
...This represents an assault to Lebanon’s sovereignty that we condemn. Elections have to be free in order for representative government to function. An official from the Saudi Arabian government justified the use of such dubious techniques as a way to oppose Iranian influence—as Iran has funded Hezbollah, a militant Shi’a group in the south of Lebanon...
...Unburdened by campaign finance regulations, former Presidents traditionally raise money for their libraries the old-fashioned way: by meeting or calling a few dozen very wealthy benefactors and asking for large sums, often on the order of $5 million to $10 million each. (See pictures of one of the richest counties in Texas...
...century, the movement appears to be rooted in Pakistan's social fabric. The Taliban's recent advances have been accomplished in no small part through recruiting locals to its cause by exploiting long-standing resentment toward the venal local judicial and administrative authorities that prop up a feudal social order...