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HARVARD COPES

COLD BREAKFASTS for students, but more financial aid

Harvard’s response to the economic downturn has been to get rid of hot breakfasts in most dormitories and to lay off 250 staff members this past summer, according to a spokesman. But he says financial aid has risen from $136 million to this year’s $145 million..

Hot Topic: Prof. Michael Sandel’s popular ‘Justice’ course goes on public TV

Alumni and the Harvard Extension School have already had a chance to see these lectures taped in 2005 and 2006. But now they’re available more widely to try to model, as Mr. Sandel says, “what public discourse would be like if it were more morally ambitious than it is.”