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...Preferential packages" are not formally considered merit scholarships--anathema to the Ivy League for years--because they still offer aid based on calculations of demonstrated need...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UPenn to Consider Merit in Aid Awards | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...evangelical Christian groups at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington the day before coming to the White House. "Look, Bibi," said Clinton firmly. "You meet with Falwell [because] you think I am snubbing you. I could make the argument that you are gigging me." The television evangelist, who is anathema to Clinton, has distributed political videotapes that conspiratorially--and unconvincingly--hint, among other things, at the former Governor's complicity in an Arkansas killing. Moreover, Netanyahu asked Falwell and his conservative supporters to use their influence in Congress to lobby against Administration pressure on Israel to hand over West Bank land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Peace Process | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...insert them in outline form; be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all the exams insist at the top, "Illustrate, "Be specific;' etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If we Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume wrote, don't just say Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Grader's Reply | 1/12/1998 | See Source »

...here's the surprise: It wasn't just small talk. T words such as Tibet, Taiwan and even Tiananmen ? previously considered anathema to such a meeting ? were openly discussed. Now that's progress the protesters in nearby Lafayette park knew nothing of. Jiang, it is becoming clear, is a different kind of dictator ? and with a "hot line" set to be installed between Beijing and Washington, he and Clinton can philosophize to their hearts' content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zen and the Art of U.S.-China Relations | 10/29/1997 | See Source »

...find a way to avoid the anathema of lotteried courses while maintaining the structure of shopping period, please e-mail Dean of Undergraduate Education William M. Todd (todd@fas). As thousands of us will soon see, this is the most worrisome aspect of our system. Solving it would allow careful undergrads to kick back, pop a cold one and light a cigar on study card day, just as the most wily state legislators do after redistricting...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: A Message From Your Personal Shopper | 9/12/1997 | See Source »

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