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Such a plan is not unheard of at Harvard. Both the Kennedy School of Government and the Law School have loan forgiveness plans to help students not entering high-paying jobs. The Kennedy School grants eligibility for loan forgiveness to students "engaged in qualifying public service positions, employed by a...
After running away from an arranged marriage at home and completing his B.A. in 1941 by correspondence through the University of South Africa, Mandela entered the law profession, only to realize that his prospects as a black lawyer were limited under apartheid.
He and other officials said they were concernedthat work-study jobs caused Harvard students tomiss out on potentially rewarding extracurricularactivities, and that heavy loans forced somegraduates to value earnings over interest inchoosing a profession.
In contrast to that sense of irremediable loss, Verghese delivers a more affirmative view of the understandings that arise from heartbreak. With his first book, My Own Country (also in 1994), he won prizes and best-seller status with his humane account of being a foreign doctor tending to AIDS...
I felt euphoric seeing John Glenn on the cover of TIME in an astronaut's suit [SPACE, Aug. 17]. How refreshing to see a 77-year-old taking a ride in space instead of one in a wheelchair. It was fantastic for Glenn to say "Politics is not only an...