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Students who receive a higher aid package from one school than another can use the higher offer as a bargaining chip, threatening to attend the more generous school...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Bidding Games Have Begun... | 1/15/1999 | See Source »

Mostly, they are raging lyrics, ripping throats and blazing guitars, with a generous helping of manic screeches and sirens. "Check" and "Get Back" grab your imagination from the onset, and grip you with iron jaws. The movement is crazy, with rip, roar and brazen brakes...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Zebras Get Out of Orange County | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...know so much about him, right down to his choice of underwear, that he made it hard for us to hold him to a higher standard. So instead his allies defended what was worst in him by appealing to what is best in us. How could we not be generous and forgive him? Has he done anything that many of us have not done ourselves? Are these not private matters? Any gentleman would, of course, lie about his mistress. Judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Men Of The Year | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...character to the screen." Hanks also knows how to lighten things up on the set. For the kissing scene in You've Got Mail, recalls Ryan, "we were both uncomfortable. So Tom starts talking about the Microsoft lawsuit. I knew just what he was doing. It was so generous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Hanks is unusually generous to the press; he tries to give a fresh, incisive quote to each journalist. He even took it well when he heard he would be bumped off the cover of this week's TIME because of some minor congressional skirmish. Caring and articulate, he rarely trips over his own dexterity. And when he does it makes news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tom Terrific | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

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