Word: choses
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Carey is a musical earth angel. Claimed by two worlds--pure pop and urban soul--she chose, a few albums ago, to integrate hip-hop into her sound. Her mostly entertaining new CD features cameos from a host of rappers, including Snoop Dogg and the gruff-voiced Mystikal. Some of Carey's lyrics are revealing: "I gravitated towards a patriarch," the now divorced diva sings in Petals. Some of her music, however, is less pointed and could use more grit. Carey longs for the hard black soul of the street, but she hovers a bit above it, heat shimmering...
Nefra Faltas, 20, a human-biology and philosophy major, could have gone to the University of Virginia as an in-state student three years ago but chose to attend the University of Toronto instead. "It was time," she decided, "to be exposed to something completely different." Rachel Polner, 21, a Denver resident, considered several institutions, including Princeton, but stopped looking at U.S. schools after the University of York in England made her an unconditional offer. She knows England well, having vacationed there during her childhood, and was pleased that she would be allowed to concentrate entirely on her chosen subject...
Canada, host this year to more than 3,000 American students, is the most popular destination for those seeking undergraduate degrees abroad, in no small part because it's close to home. Katy Morley, 18, chose Bishop's University in southern Quebec because she wanted to leave Vermont yet remain within a two-hour drive of her family's farm. "I loved Bishop's from the first minute," she says. She appreciates her small classes, the charming Quebec scenery and the "low-key" people, whose "whole mind set is different" from that of Americans...
Ireland, of course, has its own special chemistry. Domenica Alioto, 18, chose Trinity College Dublin because "none of the American schools I applied to really excited me the way Trinity did." The excitement is apparently catching: the number of all American students in Ireland, where there are only nine universities, has doubled in the past four years--to 1,160. Some may come to walk the same streets as did Joyce, Yeats, Swift or Wilde, or take in the enchanting architecture and countryside. Ivan Filbi, director of international student affairs at Trinity College Dublin, simply credits the quality...
Where does the money go? At the beginning of each year, the council formulates its budget. We are mandated to spend at least 60 percent of the money on our grants fund, and this year, we chose to allocate about $100,000 to student group grants. That's 67.5 percent of this year's budget plus any rollover from grants that weren't picked up last year...