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Penn announced it will give 50 of its most prized applicants new "Trustee Scholarships," aid packages that replace all loans with outright grants. This program will cost about $125,000. "Preferential packages" are not formally considered merit scholarships because they still offer aid based on calculations of demonstrated need. The new program completely eliminates self-help for the 50 Trustee Scholars...
Recognizing that it is not enough to provide aseparate orientation for international students,GSAS will offer a seminar next month, "After theFirst Month in the New Culture," to try to addressproblem that students could not anticipate duringthe first week of school...
...race around trying desperately to meet as many people as possible, as if college were ending tomorrow and they feared missing any opportunity to connect with their future soulmates or to make a name for themselves on campus or to take advantage of every single resource the university might offer them. Those who were uncomfortable with themselves during high school seize the chance to remake themselves, introducing to others a person whom even they do not really know yet. Of course, all of this makes for incredibly entertaining gossip among roommates at three in the morning, as well as hours...
...want to stay in the game but are looking for a relatively safe harbor, consider Real Estate Investment Trusts, whose 6% yields offer unusual protection. Or buy other high-yielding stocks--especially blue chips that you can count on to thrive long-term. High yield today is anything over 3%, a level that may indicate the stock has been unfairly trashed and will do well in coming quarters. Among the highest-yielding Dow stocks are Philip Morris (4.1%), J.P. Morgan (4.4%) and General Motors (3.5%). Other stocks to own might include those of consumer-products companies, a group that lost...
...museum exhibit of the big cycles in New York City [ART, Aug. 17]. As a 43-year-old emergency-department physician, I took a giant leap six years ago and made the transition from piecing bikers back together to straddling my own BMW R1100 roadster. These wonderful machines offer an escape for the soul and spirit, a place to relish life's victories and reconcile its defeats. But Hughes is correct: you'll have little use for one "unless you are prepared to go somewhat out on the edge." BOBBY MITCHELL, M.D. Douglasville...