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...start a job that we can't finish... That's the American way." PAUL WOLFOWITZ, Deputy Defense Secretary, on the White House's request for $87 billion in military and reconstruction funds for Iraq and Afghanistan next year...
...Congress is not an ATM." ROBERT BYRD, Democratic Senator from West Virginia, to Paul Wolfowitz, on the White House's postwar funding request...
...able to save valuable time and energy this semester, thanks to the Undergraduate Council. A council initiative has created a common, project-based application for student organizations—allowing groups to apply to multiple grant-giving institutions in one fell swoop. Starting this semester, one application can request funds from the Ann Radcliffe Trust, the Office for the Arts, the President’s Public Service Fund and the Student Activities Fund, as well as the council itself. With applications traditionally longer than the council’s, some of these groups, such as the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural...
...events that did not take place. The project-based system makes it easier for grant-giving institutions to track the activity of student organizations and to make them accountable for each project. In addition, the previous lack of coordination has made the grant awarding process difficult, since student groups request funds from multiple sources. As a result, student groups would receive either too little or too much funding for their events. The common application resolves this issue, allowing for coordination between grant-giving institutions, and insures that student groups are able to receive appropriate funds for events...
Yale established this form of book delivery as part of a larger book request system integrated into its web catalog (ORBIS). Books in Sterling and other Yale libraries can be paged for same day pickup at the library where the book is held (while at Widener, paging is only possible for those without stack access, and for those with disabilities, and even then the paging requests need to be made a day in advance); books paged from one library to another by the Eli Express service are available in about 48 hours. I find it mystifying that the Harvard library...