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...says the study is aimed at parents trying to decide between a more generous public school--whose offers motivated Princeton to raise its aid--and a less generous...
...address the perception that we're socioeconomically out of reach," Lewis says. "These rankings give very little credit to generous schools for the enormous scholarship assistance we give to students in need...
...other industries, the challenge isn't persuading employees to contribute; it's keeping up with their demands for even more generous benefits. Keen competition for technical talent convinced Joanne Carthey in 1995 that she needed to offer a 401(k) plan to the 25 employees of her Scottsdale, Ariz., software company, NetPro. "In high tech, if you don't have a plan, your employees just go next door," Carthey says. By 1996, NetPro began offering stock options as a further benefit in order to keep up with its Silicon Valley peers. Employees buy shares in NetPro at a discount, before...
Last and hardly least, the But-the-Good-Times-Were-Not-Meant- to-Last genre relies on stars' generous willingness to drink, go bankrupt and have their houses burned down in order to create hypnotic TV. Behind the Music delivers on the credits' promise of "Fame...Passion... Heartbreak...Success...Glory" with an Aristotelian three-act structure--rise, fall and rehab--and florid narration: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "came out of the South--driven by jangling guitars and led by a rock-'n'-roll rebel!" E!'s True Hollywood Story is tart and eager to dish dirt. Compare an Intimate...
...think everybody liked the fact that it was based around a scholarship," Locker said. "We've been lucky--we were able to do it because some graduates were generous enough to match whatever we raised...