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...component of financial aid and the University's academic programs. Without this support we would not have been able to maintain the current need-blind admission policy. Last year, for example, over $36 million were contributed by alumni to the Harvard College Fund. Restricted scholarship fund (donors "restricted" their use to scholarships) are the largest single source of our financial aid budget. Very nearly all of those funds--that together yield more than half of college financial aid-were established by alumni. In fact nine out of every 10 scholarship dollars are provided by alumni...
...denied having secretly placed the winning bid, entered by a lawyer who is the brother of Conforte's attorney. Among those who had expressed interest in the property were a nursing home and a halfway house. Whoever winds up with the Mustang may lack one key element: the special use permit that allowed it to operate as a brothel. Storey County yanked the license last month and may not give it back...
...would not seek to come back to Vietnam as the President if we were successful. I am old, too old to take power again. But I believe I can encourage the struggle of those who want democracy and freedom, especially for the younger generation, and after that I can use my experience to promote reconciliation and guard against the chance that we could lose our freedoms again...
...they continue like this, there is no doubt that they will face a struggle. If they use force like in a Tiananmen Square, then certainly blood will be answered by blood. Whether there is a civil war depends on how stubborn and tricky the Hanoi government will be. At the moment they are playing tricks, creating false political parties so they can say that there is democracy...
Gimmicks are a must. Mailings often include stickers or buttons to "involve" the consumer. "It starts to reduce the amount of logic readers use," explains Kikoler. "They tend to become more childlike." Katie Muldoon, president of HDM Muldoon, a New York City direct-marketing agency, has discovered that an offer to cut prices 50% works better than a 65% discount, which consumers consider too good to be true. Disabled American Veterans has found that when gummed, individualized address labels are included, the response rate (35%) is almost twice that for mailings without stickers...