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...hardly seemed cut out to be a workingman's revolutionary. A Cambridge University don with a flair for making money, a graduate of England's exclusive Eton prep school, a collector of modern art, the darling of Virginia Woolf and her intellectually avant-garde Bloomsbury Group, the chairman of a life-insurance company, later a director of the Bank of England, married to a ballerina, John Maynard Keynes--tall, charming and self-confident--nonetheless transformed the dismal science into a revolutionary engine of social progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economist JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Thanks to the Harvard-Radcliffe Student Committees on Premedical Education (SCOPE), students planning on taking the MCAT have another option. This semester, SCOPE is offering a low-cost MCAT prep course taught by students who have just taken the test themselves and have succeeded...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Down Costs: SCOPE Offers $20 MCAT Prep Class | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...originally planned to not take a prep course because of the ridiculous amounts that the programs cost, especially for me with limited resources," Man wrote in an e-mail message...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Down Costs: SCOPE Offers $20 MCAT Prep Class | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

Chukwuemeka C. Nwanze '00, a student currently enrolled in the SCOPE classes, picked them over other test-prep organizations because "SCOPE is cheaper and hopefully will be sufficient," Nwanze wrote in an e-mail message, adding that the course has helped her review old material...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Down Costs: SCOPE Offers $20 MCAT Prep Class | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...high stress levels and the enormous costs of some test-prep programs have caused some students to question whether the MCAT is too important a factor in medical school admissions, especially because expensive preparation courses promise higher scores...

Author: By Kyle D. Hawkins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cutting Down Costs: SCOPE Offers $20 MCAT Prep Class | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

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