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...more than enough money in the world to make sure no child goes to bed hungry. We have the resources to do that. We should not waste our money on weapons and wars. This generation could go down in history as the one that beat global poverty. Henry Pool Silverton, South Africa A good portion of the aid will go toward reconstruction of the disaster area. Who will do the work? What will be rebuilt? Who will own the new construction? Sticky questions. Let's hope that in a couple of years journalists will compare what they find in these...
...language version has become a U.K. best seller. The novel, Murakami's 10th and his first big one since The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in 1997, features a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Tokyo home - shortly before his father's body is discovered in a pool of blood - and heads for distant Takamatsu. There he meets a mysterious librarian, who may or may not be his long-lost mother, and a sexy hairdresser, who may or may not be his vanished elder sister. Filling out the cast is an old man who lost his memory...
While a certain lesser New Haven school recently attracted a diminished pool of applicants, Harvard received 22,717 applications for entrance next fall—the largest number of applications in the school’s history and a 15 percent increase in the number of applicants compared to last year. This rise in applications seems to indicate that the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative (HFAI), introduced last year by President Lawrence H. Summers and Dean of Admissions William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, is substantially increasing the number of low-income applicants, thus improving socioeconomic diversity in the College...
...growth in the number of requests for application fee waivers was also accompanied by a 16.7 percent rise in the number of students seeking financial aid in general, another positive sign that Harvard is attempting to further diversify its student body. But while these increases in the applicant pool are important, they will be meaningless if the accepted class does not reflect this greater diversity. It is not enough to have more low-income students applying; Harvard must enroll talented, high-achieving low-income students so that the new class of first-years will reflect the diversity of the applications...
...Tennessee I was caught up in my own swimming, taking last year off taught me the value of being a good teammate,” Bassi said. “Approaching this meet I knew I needed to be there for my teammates, in and out of the pool...