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...multiple centuries and continents” by covering “significant moments…in which civilizations interacted in cooperative or competitive ways”—in a semester)? The answer is not too hard to guess when that professor might receive a hefty bonus and/or ego-boost and global brandname as Harvard marketers hawk his course everywhere from eBay to East Podunk College...
According to Dynarski, the disparity is a result of the fact that families who would not be eligible for financial aid are still eligible for these savings accounts, effectively giving affluent families a free bonus and encouraging them to save for college...
...national championship in that year's Rose Bowl. All the same, prior to the NFL draft the following year, the labels "too small" and "too slow" still clung to him. He came to the Cardinals as a seventh-round pick, 226th out of 241 overall. His signing bonus was meal money by NFL standards, just $21,000. Since he didn't have a car, he commuted to the Cards' training camp riding his green Schwinn bicycle. "But you couldn't tell him he couldn't make it in the NFL", recalls Kwamie Lassiter, one of Tillman's former teammates. "Tell...
There was more to the Kids than drag, though, and more to their drag than easy yuks. They were postfeminist men having absurd, dark fun with gender roles and p.c., long before The Man Show dumbed both subjects down. As Bruce McCulloch recalls in a bonus-disc interview, for instance, his girlfriend's being hit on by leches inspired Cabbage Head, a vegetable-pated boor who claims women who won't sleep with him are bigots. ("It's because I have a cabbage for a head, isn't it?!") The Kids were also among the first TV comics to deal...
Balestracci was projected as either a late-round pick or a “priority free-agent signing,” generally signed in the weeklong aftermath of the draft. Priority free agents are entitled to a baseline level signing bonus, while training camp signees receive no such guarantees...