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...University has already spent millions of dollars since 2004 eliminating tuition, room, and board for undergraduates who qualify for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative. Now, it will turn its attention and resources to easing the financial burdens on the more than 13,000 students in its nine graduate schools, University President Drew G. Faust said in an interview yesterday...
Senator Tom Coburn spent a good part of last Wednesday trying to stop the federal government from building bike paths. He wanted to redirect the $12 million allotted for them to shoring up U.S. bridges following the collapse of a highway bridge in Minneapolis that killed 13 people. The amendment failed 80-18. Undeterred, Coburn, an Oklahoma Republican, immediately introduced his second amendment of the day: a motion to suspend all earmarks - or pet projects often attached in secret to funding bills - until structural integrity of all U.S. bridges can be verified. There were $2 billion in earmarks...
Cowan also spent time fundraising for a civil rights newspaper founded in 1965 by two Harvard juniors...
...Starting in 2001, in response to King's tireless lobbying, the Sacramento Housing and Redevelopment Agency spent four years and $1 million (from a Federal grant) on repairing the dilapidated sewers. The agency also mapped, surveyed, and purchased the 10-acre downtown area in order to subdivide the land and sell each lot to 51 individual owners. "I fought for 55 years to get land," says King, standing in front of her simple, well-manicured home...
Nevertheless, though he spent a year on Crimson Cable, Castine hasn’t even been allowed to test his plan. Instead, the College has asked for countless revisions to his original plan, serially adding objections as the previous ones were addressed...