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Financial inducements are more and more common. Ohio's Antioch College, recognizing that students now try to cut costs by attending college closer to home, is offering a $1,000 tuition rebate to any Ohio resident who qualifies for admission this year. Nearly 60% of colleges and universities today give financial aid to top students without regard to need. Southern Methodist University offers four years of free tuition (value: $30,000) to students who meet a series of criteria, including SAT scores of 1320 or higher. Trinity University in San Antonio offers as much as $20,000 over four...
...largest Christian group and the one that has dominated Lebanese politics is the Maronites, with some 500,000 members. A rugged mountain folk and the most martial of Lebanon's Christians, the Maronites take Suleiman Franjieh their name from John Maron, a learned monk who was Patriarch of Antioch in the 8th century. The Crusades brought the Maronites closer to Rome, and in the 1700s they were formally united, thus reinforcing their long and dearly held association with the West...
...without careful consideration nevertheless concluding that divestiture is "almost certainly destined to prove ineffective." Other, however, disagree. The states of Massachusetts and Connecticut, as well as well as the cities of Philadelphia, Grand Rapids, Cambridge, and others, have all divested. The University of Wisconsin, Michigan State University, Hampshire College, Antioch College, and many other educational institutions have also taken action against South Africa through divestiture...
...tale burns brightest in its succession of images: "It was that sort of a hot still day when one seems particularly to hear the buzzing of flies." A picture from doomed Antioch: "As the sun ascends the morning shadow of the eastern slopes of Silpius withdraws from the city like a transparent purple robe trailed across a floor." Because he still lives as a glitch in the cosmos, Pilgermann can play telescopic tricks with space and time. He remembers the rituals of Passover, the precautionary striking of the side posts and lintels of Jewish dwellings, and makes a leap...
...Well do we know that in each of us lives a skeleton that waits for the flesh to die, there is an absence waiting for the presence to depart-but a great city! A city like Antioch! As Pilgermann the owl I fly over it now and it looks like nothing really, it has retreated from its medieval boundaries, it has shrunk and dwindled, it has huddled itself together, has drawn back from the vaunt of its greatness and the largeness of its history, it is like a swimmer who has struggled barely alive out of a raging torrent...