There are no excuses when your own currency is tied to your own national policies and everything goes to pot.

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If Algeria goes to pot, figure double the impact.

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"The idea that colleges have a fixed pot of money for financial aid and that this pot either goes to needy people or goes to people without need is simply wrong, " says Brown's Grossman.

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