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...January, Princeton started a war. It allocated an additional $6 million to unilaterally cut student self-help and expected parental contributions for the class of 2002, replacing these with outright grants...
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...
...than $40,000 a year, absorbing what had been $4,080 in debt into an increased grant package in some cases. It will benefit middle-class students by eliminating home equity in calculating expected contributions from families making $90,000 or less. Princeton also replaces needier students' loans with outright grants...
First, reproductive choice. I support a woman's right to choose, in every instance. Pro-life forces, having failed to ban abortion outright, have turned to reducing choice bit-by-bit. They have already succeeded in limiting abortion access for poor women on Medicaid, women in the military and female federal employees...
Saving--or sacrificing--Japan's banks has become a litmus test. Obuchi's rescue plan envisions a "bridge bank" that would consolidate ailing institutions and protect healthy depositors without causing any outright failures. That means "the government will not cure the most crucial wounds," complains Hiroshi Kumagai, a leading member of the opposition. Kumagai wants to close bleeders like the Long Term Credit Bank, which holds more than $350 billion in international derivatives contracts. Institutions worldwide are party to those contracts, so the bitter medicine of a closing would not be Japan's alone to swallow. Whatever Obuchi does, most...