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...money that the Financial Aid Office allots for “personal expenses.” Currently set at $2,795 per year, “personal expenses” are meant to cover everything not provided by Harvard. This includes items from toothpaste and soap to clothing and textbooks. To determine the size of the stipend, Financial Aid Office uses cost estimates derived from sample budgets and student surveys.The textbook portion of that estimate is in the realm of $1, 250 per year (used books are about $300 less), leaving a student on financial aid the modest...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Book Aid | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...crucial variable that determines where and when the UC is prepared to act is apparently money. The UC was ecstatic to work with discount textbook retailer CrimsonReading.org to catalogue hundreds of texts for spring semester courses, and didn’t flinch at setting up its new “Teaching Hotline” last month. Neither of these initiatives cost the UC anything, except its members’ time. But when it comes to a buy-back program for PRS clickers, or $1,700 for daily newspapers, the UC comes up empty. With a $400,000 budget, that kind...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: A Timorous Beastie | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

...officer was dispatched to take a report of a stolen black IBM Thinkpad T-60 laptop valued at $2,000 and a green and crimson Lehman Brothers backpack valued at $15 that contained a genetics textbook, a silver Cingular LG cell phone, and a white coat. At 10:27 p.m. the laptop and backpack were recovered...

Author: By Yelena S. Mironova, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Police Log | 3/6/2007 | See Source »

Grigg manipulated her opponent in her textbook dominant form, winning the last two games 9-3, 9-5. Still, even with the title, she remains humble, attributing her individual success to her teammates...

Author: By Vincent R. Oletu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: Duo Sparks Historic Championship Run | 3/5/2007 | See Source »

...sure, there are few subjects more important to the two countries than their painful history. The 2005 Japanese textbook controversy ignited long-smoldering resentment in China; that spring, tens of thousands of Chinese took to the streets as mobs burned Japanese flags, overturned Japanese-made cars and threw rocks at Japan's consulate in Shanghai. Part of that animosity can be attributed to historical myopia on the Chinese side: mainland textbooks omit anything that casts the Communist Party in a bad light, glossing over, for example, the horror of the Cultural Revolution. Japan's wartime atrocity thus stands out starkly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haunted by History | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

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