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...their power to adjust federal aid awards using "professional judgment" and documentation, and encouraging them in this economy to consider students with special circumstances. "The ones who have been appealing right now have been in dire straits," says Bobbi Carpenter, director of financial aid at Virginia's Sweet Briar College. "They don't want to make the $500 deposit knowing they're not going to be able to afford us." (See pictures of the college dorm's evolution...
...student's financial need has grown enough, federal funding may also kick in. Sweet Briar's Carpenter recalls one student whose family income was $250,000 when she applied and had dropped to $50,000 by the time she was admitted this spring. She is now eligible for federal Pell grants, which were increased to $4,860 per student this year under the economic stimulus package passed in February...
...makework has become a kind of inside-the-Beltway joke; when I first interviewed Lott's spokesman about the Yazoo pump, he mock-squealed: "Oh, no! You can't tell people about all this pork for Mississippi! Not in an election year! Please, don't throw us into that briar patch!" But it's all seemed less funny since Hurricane Katrina, when Corps failures ruined a great American city. The Corps was wasting money and destroying wetlands with mockeries like the Yazoo pump when it should have been building decent levees and restoring the wetlands that used to protect...
...control. Pictures of war dead could produce a rallying effect--finish the job, get those who did this to us. And there's a school of thought that, good news or bad, focusing on national security only helps the G.O.P. President George W. Bush was pulled into that briar patch in 2004 and came out with a second term...
Perusing Yahoo Sports and asking my friends and fellow sports writers led to a bounty of bizarre collegiate nomenclature, from the College of Notre Dame (Calif.) Argonauts to the Sweet Briar College (Va.) Vixens-and everything in between...