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Bush is particularly practical in his approach to saving for college. For many of us, Pell Grants are a godsend. Under Bush's plan, the maximum grant would increase from $3,300 to $5,100. Bush's policymakers say that this $5 billion jolt to the funding would make it possible for 800,000 more students each year to enter college. Gore simply imposes another layer of bureaucracy, with a proposed "National Tuition Savings Program" so that the federal government can tell parents to invest their money in special trusts to pay for tuition. This added layer of government influence...
...anti-Castro exile leadership had seized on the arrival of the shipwrecked boy last Thanksgiving as a godsend in their campaign to halt the slide in Washington toward relaxing the embargo. But campaigning to keep a child separated from his sole surviving parent may have been a fatal miscalculation for a political leadership whose power and relevance are derived less from its ability to mobilize its own base than from its ability to wield influence in Washington. While the ferocity of protest in Miami initially paralyzed the Clinton administration - and prompted Vice President Gore to break ranks over the government...
...aspiring filmmakers ready for the challenge? I'm so pumped, I want to give Romesh Ratnesar and Joel Stein high fives and a hug! Their cover story, "Do-It-Yourself.Com," was a godsend as far as providing timely inspiration for a screenwriter and aspiring filmmaker like me. In the new millennium, the necessity of the old "play the Hollywood game" studio system will diminish, and those with initiative, focus and talent will come to the forefront of the industry by being provocative and making things happen themselves. ALAN ROGER CURRIE Beverly Hills, Calif...
...schoolyard in the past 10 years knows, was the pediatric diagnosis of the decade. According to one estimate, some 2 million American children are bouncing off the walls with it. For parents and teachers driven to distraction by a hyperactive kid, psychotropic stimulants like Ritalin have been a godsend; thousands of students who couldn't sit still long enough to learn have been able to calm down, pay attention and get the job done, thanks to Ritalin...
...lucky enough to make it out alive is always examined by psychiatrists and other doctors, and those examinations continue for several years. In John McCain's case they took place between 1973 and 1984, and are proving two decades later to be a godsend. For when his political enemies began whispering that his 5 1/2 years in prison had made the presidential candidate emotionally unstable, McCain had mounds of paperwork to prove otherwise. Last week his campaign staff allowed TIME to review those records--roughly 1,500 pages of them. The upshot: not only has McCain never displayed signs...