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...already a doctor glut in many parts of the country and that too often the offshore schools provide second-rate training for third-rate candidates, half of whom fail the U.S. medical qualifying exams each year. "It's a disgrace," says Dr. Vincent Larkin at Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital. "A substantial number don't belong in medical school and will never be able to practice medicine...
Indeed, many hospitals welcome the Caribbean imports. "Our patients are very happy," says Dr. Larkin of Methodist, an inner-city hospital that has trouble attrac ing U.S. medical students and accepts about 20 offshore transfers every year. Says a nurse from nearby Coney Island Hospital: "The Caribbean students are more humble. The attitude of mainland students is to let others do the dirty work...
...recognizing that students now try to cut costs by attending college closer to home, is offering a $1,000 tuition rebate to any Ohio resident who qualifies for admission this year. Nearly 60% of colleges and universities today give financial aid to top students without regard to need. Southern Methodist University offers four years of free tuition (value: $30,000) to students who meet a series of criteria, including SAT scores of 1320 or higher. Trinity University in San Antonio offers as much as $20,000 over four years to National Merit scholars. Trinity attracted ten finalists...
...went last week, on the streets of East Baltimore, on the campus of the largely black University of Maryland Eastern Shore in the town of Princess Anne, in the tiny Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church in Oxon Hill, Md., later in Texas at a San Antonio barrio and a West Dallas project, and on Friday night in the Mount Canaan Baptist Church in Shreveport, La. To dramatize his appeal to the poor, Jackson has taken to sleeping some nights in their homes rather than in hotels. Last Monday he stayed with William Jarrard, an unemployed white Baltimorean who bears...
Despite his broken nose, Walter Mondale does not seem like much of a brawler. He wears gray business suits, his father was a Methodist minister, and his favorite sport is fishing. As a politician, he has displayed caution, even a certain softness...