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...direction at the nation’s wealthiest colleges. According to Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67, the percentage of undergraduates receiving the grant—traditionally an indicator of the number of low-income students in the College—has risen from 6.8 in 2000-2001 to 13 in 2007-2008. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported last week that from 2004-2005 to 2006-2007, the average proportion of Pell Grant recipients at the 75 wealthiest colleges dropped from 14 to 13 percent. In the same time period, the percentage...
...been a huge inspiration for me,” Lloyd-Bollard says of her friend. Recently, the pair worked together on 2006’s “The Playboy of the Western World.” In the past four years, Lloyd-Bollard has risen in the ranks of the Harvard theater community. Her most recent work was directing this month’s production of “Blasted” at the American Repertory Theatre (ART). The play, filled with moments of sexualized brutality, served as her senior thesis along with a writing component, entitled...
...boisterous but uncertain. Fang Lin, 66, thinks the market is going to go down very quickly. "I will sell all my stocks this afternoon, even though I will still lose money." Like Fang, millions of Chinese small investors have put their life savings into the market that has risen 600% over the last two years. Dong Tao says: "Many Chinese investors used to think China's stock market is like an ATM machine. You type your password in and money comes out." Not anymore. The decline of China's stock market sped up this January, and it fell straight through...
...Italian monk with the Christ-like stigmata wounds on his hands. It was that encounter - along with Wojtyla's belief that a prayer by the Capuchin monk had cured a friend's cancer in 1962 - that helps explain why Padre Pio was fast-tracked for sainthood once Wojtyla had risen to the papacy as John Paul II. But some may now wonder if the current Pope, the cerebral and professorial Benedict XVI, has the same affinity for the popular Italian wonder-worker who died...
...percent of Americans say that they would prefer to die at home, but just one fifth of deaths in Massachusetts occurred in homes in 1997. While there has been some legislative action to increase end-of-life options, the effect has been minimal. By 2005, the number had only risen to 22 percent...