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...five schools have failed to respond to Princeton's move to increase financial aid. In fact, Duke has long used some of these competitive practices. Students' tuition is frozen at freshman-year levels, even as incoming classes pay more. And students from the Carolinas receive grants in lieu of loans in their financial aid packages. This last factor was important in my own decision to attend Duke, and being debt-free has expanded my later options. JEFFREY W. VANKE, GSAS...
...lieu of Kline, the Lampoon staged a tag-teambout that pitted Savage and Grimace, a McDonaldscharacter, against a group of costumed spectatorsculled from the audience. These included a cowboy,a ninja, the philosopher Socrates, a cadre ofRevolutionary War soldiers and the Grim Reaper...
Beginning this fall, upper-class students will have the option of selecting bag lunches at Loker Commons in lieu of trekking back to the Houses for their midday meal...
...factor in an application process. Minorities should then be given an edge in the admissions processes of schools and the personnel decisions of firms. To illustrate the sincerity of their commitment, affirmative action activists generally admit that minority candidates (provided they have met certain standards) will be accepted in lieu of whites with what have traditionally been considered better credentials. Race, any defender of affirmative action would agree, can compensate for the relative shortcomings that are both the vestiges of past discrimination and the result of current inequality...
When Casey collapsed on Christmas Eve two years ago, Betty Lieu rushed him to the hospital, where doctors found his spleen was cancerous and removed it. The prognosis was grim. Even with chemotherapy, Casey would have only a few months to live. Desperate, Lieu, a retired legal secretary in Los Angeles, decided instead to take a chance on a holistic healer who offered to boost Casey's immune system with herbs. Much to Lieu's delight, Casey gained back the weight and energy he had lost, and his coat is once again shiny and full...