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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graduate students are supported not by a salary, but by a stipend. They teach undergraduates as a part of their financial aid packages that forgive the thousands of dollars in tuition they would otherwise pay. This logic does not escape Yale University, even if GESO leaders don't grasp it...

Author: By Steven A. Engel, | Title: A Tale of Two Strikes | 4/5/1995 | See Source »

Reforms that make welfare harder to get and worth less when you get it will leave this escape hatch a lot narrower. Residency requirements, for example, effectively bar women from fleeing their abusers from one state to another, and work requirements will discourage the woman with no child care from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTERED WELFARE SYNDROME | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

First-years, as well as those hoping to escape from (or to) the Quad, have already submitted their forms to the great equalizer: the God of Randomization. Although the hardcore statistics majors (all three) and other naysayers resign themselves to pure happenstance, others on campus try desperately to beat the...

Author: By Ann D. Schiff, | Title: harvardian superstitions | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

Leyner's satire extends to modern life and stereotypical Jewish angst. "Young Bergdorf Goodman Browr, " his adaption of Nathanial Hawthorne's dark masterpiece, satirizes paranoia apropos to Jewish-extraterrestrial conspiracies, Six Degrees of Separation, and the gauntlet to be run when trying to escape those downright annoying perfume sales-woman...

Author: By Mark Leyner, | Title: Leyner Imprints on Paranoid World | 3/23/1995 | See Source »

If Cubans could read TIME freely, they would be shocked to learn that their great leader jokes about shooting a dedicated worker or about prostitution not being a way of solving Cuba's unemployment crisis. The once remarkable health-care system is a shambles; visitors regularly carry suitcases of even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1995 | 3/20/1995 | See Source »

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