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Federal loans aren't completely unaffected. While Stafford loans, which are made directly to students and don't take into account credit history, were up in the second quarter compared to a year ago, loans made to parents through the Parent PLUS program have plummeted - down 29% in dollar volume year-over-year, according to Department of Education data analyzed by Kantrowitz...
...line took a hit when captain Brad Bagdis ’08 graduated in June. But with the return of brothers senior Desmond and junior Brenton Bryant—both back from taking an academic leave of absence—the net gain for the front seven is definitely plus one. “When you lose a guy like Brad Bagdis, to have the luxury of Desmond and Brenton being part of a defense is very, very comforting, simply because those guys have been in the battle,” head coach Tim Murphy says. “They...
...last year, we not only didn’t stop them, we didn’t even slow them down,’” Murphy says of 2007’s 31-28 loss to the Crusaders. “500 plus yards, 30 plus first downs, 30 plus points, those are statistics you don’t normally attribute to a Harvard defense.”And as Friday’s game showed, those statistics certainly will not be attributed to the 2008 Harvard defense. The Crimson held Holy Cross preseason All-American quarterback Dominic Randolph...
...months before: "For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback." I also knew that some people found Michelle to be variously "mean," "uppity" and "radical" - not me, mind you, but people. Plus, this very magazine had asked on its cover in June, "Will Michelle Obama Hurt Barack in November...
...loaded with computer games. It's midafternoon, and they are, of course, tired, but even so their presence adds a jangly, hormonal buzz to the bland, institutional setting. Fair-haired twins Corey and Skyler Mann, 16, and their burlier big brothers Anthony and Brandon, 18, who are also twins, plus eldest brother Christopher, 22, are here to have their heads examined. Literally. The five brothers from Orem, Utah, are the latest recruits to a giant study that's been going on in this building since 1991. Its goal: to determine how the brain develops from childhood into adolescence...