BOSTON – A deal that ensured state funding to cover half the cost of attending the University of Massachusetts provided the school froze tuition and fees is history, according to the Springfield Republican's MassLive.com site.
"We're certainly open to talking about some more stable and longer term approaches to funding UMass, but at this point we can't commit to funding 50:50," state Education Secretary Jim Peyser said in an interview published Monday. He was referring to an arrangement struck previously by former Gov. Deval Patrick and Robert Caret, then the head of the UMass system.
(CNSNews.com) – The head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Navy said Monday that if the U.S. seeks to humiliate Iran, the IRGC would release footage of 10 U.S. sailors detained last month that is much more embarrassing than images released earlier.
Addressing Iranian lawmakers a day after being awarded a medal by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the Jan. 12-13 incident in the Persian Gulf, Sardar Fadavi also said his personnel had obtained information from the U.S. sailors' laptops and phones.
