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...first of Harvard's late goals came off the stick of senior forward Kate Nagle, with freshman forward Mina Pell assisting. Pell would also feature on Harvard's third goal, dished a pass to fellow freshman Maria van Wagenberg with just over a minute to play in the contest...
...less well off. Bush promises $1,000 bonus grants to low-income high school graduates who take college-level math and science courses. He would add $600 million in new funding for historically black and Latino colleges. And he would spend $5 billion to fully fund Pell grants to pay for the freshman year of college for students from families earning less than $20,000 a year...
Ivan Frishberg, director of the higher-education project for the State Public Interest Research Group in Washington, notes that for the sum Gore proposes to spend on tax breaks for tuition, he could fully fund Pell grants to send low-income students to four years of college--and would have money left over to offer tax credits for interest paid on student loans. These measures would directly help students--who are the signatories to most college debt--rather than their parents. But politicians know that in 1996, only 30% of 18- and 19-year-olds voted, in contrast...
...Populism being the most versatile of all the political faiths, Gore had something for everyone - a Pell grant, a promise, a platitude, a plan. He is perfecting his schtick, which is working very well for the incumbent of this sunny status quo: With all this money lying around, we've got enough for everybody that needs it - why do anything crazy? He covered all the ideological ground from Ted Kennedy to Bill Clinton, and refused to give anybody there a reason to vote for George W. Bush (though he did take a stand on the Constitution as a living document...
...Ivan Frishberg, director of the higher-education project for the State Public Interest Research Group in Washington, notes that for the sum Gore proposes to spend on tax breaks for tuition, he could fully fund Pell grants to send low-income students to four years of college - and would have money left over to offer tax credits for interest paid on student loans. These measures would directly help students - who are the signatories to most college debt - rather than their parents. But politicians know that in 1996, only 30 percent of 18- and 19-year-olds voted, in contrast...