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Candidates for the scholarship underwent a rigorous five-month-long application process in which they submitted a policy proposal and detailed their career aspirations...
This year, each Truman scholar will receive a $2,000 scholarship for their senior year in college, in addition to a $24,000 scholarship for their graduate education...
Winners were selected based on leadership potential, intellectual ability and likelihood of “making a difference,” according to a press release on the Truman Scholarship Foundation’s website...
...emptive strike to stop the same thing from happening again. Huntington's claim that Mexican Americans don't assimilate should not be accepted without challenge. (If George Will quotes from Huntington on Sunday-morning TV, my attempt will have failed.) And the media should stop treating clever but flawed scholarship as if it were Holy Writ, especially if an academic argument seems to question the patriotism of good people. You shouldn't do that lightly, with or without dense footnotes...
...promising Miatke has it so much better. "I'm overwhelmed by the amount of support I receive," says the Darwin-raised redhead, who moved to Melbourne at 14 to link with a new coach, Rohan Taylor. Miatke's on a scholarship at Carey Baptist Grammar School, lives with 17 other children at a nearby boarding house and looks adults she's just met square in the eye. Funded by the Victorian Institute of Sport, she has free, year-round access to masseurs, physiotherapists and psychologists. Though separated by distance from her family, she seldom wants for reassurance. Sometimes this comes...