Word: scholarshipped
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...system works. Since it was set up last year, 40,000 people have used Gyandoot to check out produce prices, sell land or cattle or get official documents. Gattu Lal, 65, applied online for his grandson's caste certificate, which guarantees school admission and a scholarship. Within a week the request was processed and verified. Before, it would have required several 20-km treks to the government office and some bribes. When a group of women from Malipura village recently complained they had not received their $10 maternity benefits, their protest was forwarded to the local government officer, Mohini Srivatsav...
...Nenneman came to Harvard, a scholarship student from Chicago, who despite not coming from an elite New England prep school, felt no academic disadvantage...
...Davis, "Man, you just flushed your life down the toilet." Davis replied, "Yes, but it's been fun." The fun didn't last. Today Davis is serving a 52-year term at a medium-security correctional facility in Clifton, Tenn. Before the shooting, he had received an academic scholarship to study computer science at Mississippi State University. Instead, he takes a prison course to learn the low-tech skill of computer refurbishment. Dressed in prison blues, Davis spoke to TIME while seated at a small wooden table in a visitor's room, with a security guard standing watch...
...could be; after all, Wordsworth had an undistinguished academic career, right? (Being an English major, I compare myself to literary figures.) But problems occur when one compares oneself to other Harvard graduates; for example, take my own personal tormentor, John Updike. Updike came to Harvard on scholarship in the early 50s, earning excellent marks throughout his undergraduate career (the only black mark on his record being his presidency of the Harvard Lampoon). He graduated summa cum laude and immediately went to work for The New Yorker, shortly after which he published his first novel and a collection of short stories...
...friends aren’t much of a consolation, I might add. Included in their number are three future Harvard Law students. Then there’s the one going to Cambridge (England) on a scholarship, the legion of consultants and I-bankers, and the summa cum laude graduate. These are amazing and talented people, to be sure, and beloved friends. But close association with them can be a bit tough on the ol’ self-esteem. The only one I feel a kinship with is the friend who’s going to Colorado...