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...year at Georgetown University, Buchanan was escorting a date home and picked a tussle with two cops. "I stuck a size 10 1/2 cordovan where I thought it might do him some good," Buchanan writes. In addition to receiving a broken wrist, he was booted out of school, his scholarship was revoked, and only a sharp criminal lawyer got him off with a misdemeanor. Pop Buchanan went to the Jesuits at Georgetown and pleaded to make his son's suspension temporary, and they agreed. Pat eventually graduated cum laude with a degree in English and philosophy, and won a fellowship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE MAKING OF BUCHANAN | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...Mandarins so unpopular? Partly because there's a sense among everybody else that they haven't earned what they have. The country is willing to celebrate rich entrepreneurs like Ross Perot and Bill Gates, but it isn't willing to accept that, say, someone's having won a Rhodes Scholarship is an achievement on the same scale, meriting the same deference. An equal difficulty for the Mandarins, but more correctable, is that they like to impose rules on the rest of the country that they don't have to play by. The best example is the Vietnam War, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: AMERICA'S NEW CLASS SYSTEM | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

Much of the credit for the College's success in attracting the country's and world's best students can be attributed to the Faculty's commitment to need-blind admissions and to our financial aid program. This year students were offered more than $70 million in scholarships, loans and jobs, with scholarships alone totaling some $39 million. About two-thirds of undergraduates are eligible for some form of financial aid, and about 45 percent of undergraduates this year are on scholarship, an all-time high. The average grant is $12,650, toward a total aid package of more than...

Author: By William R. Fitzsimmons, | Title: Why the Increase in Applications? | 2/16/1996 | See Source »

...president of the Middle East Studies Association, has informed me that no such complaint has ever been filed by Dr. Afrasiabi. I would, in fact, welcome Dr. Afrasiabi filing such a "formal complaint" so that a panel of his peers might evaluate his charges and he might return to scholarship, which I very much hope Dr. Afrasiabi will make his primary concern in the future. -Roy P. Mottahedeh Gurney Professor of History

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Article on Trial of Harvard Post-Doc Was in Error | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

MARIA RAMIREZ, 39, COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO: Teacher This year's Bilingual Teacher of the Year was born to migrant farm workers and grew up weeding crops throughout the Northwest. Ramirez went on to win a college scholarship, only to be stricken with a brain tumor in her junior year. After a long recovery she earned a master's degree. She now teaches Spanish to the staff in her school district, which is 47% Hispanic, as well as English to immigrants. "If you have a dream," she says, "work toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook, Feb. 12, 1996 | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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