Word: scholarshipped
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According to University figures, the average scholarship granted to an undergraduate has grown by 6.7 percent each year over the past eight year, compared to a 6.2 percent annual rise in annual costs for students...
...College has also offered scholarship money to a record 45 percent of admitted students, in the same year that its tuition will for the first time exceed $25,000 annually. About two-thirds of the admits will be eligible for some form of financial aid, with the average package totaling more than...
...crackpots engaged in what he calls "vulgar Afrocentrism based purely on speculation and racial divisiveness." It developed as "an attempt to speak to a crying need for identity, purpose and human development within the context of the black underclass." Much of Afrocentrism, he says, is based on solid scholarship...
...Death of the Messiah deals with many matters central to the Christian faith, as well as iconic motifs such as the Judas kiss and Pilate's washing his hands. The book's scholarship will upset Christian traditionalists, although it fits well with new warnings against "fundamentalism" from the Pontifical Biblical Commission. Brown treats numerous familiar details as imaginary rather than literal (the dream of Pilate's wife, the darkness at noon as Christ died). And he disdains uninformed literal readings of Scripture. The Gospel texts, contends Brown, must be interpreted carefully because they were completed decades after Jesus' life...
...U.S.S.R. They moved to a tiny white clapboard house in Waltham, Massachusetts, where they promptly became red-white-and-blue American suburbanites. Yuri got a job as a computer programmer; Tanya taught English and lectured on Russian life; and Vera, an accomplished pianist, was accepted with a full scholarship to Milton Academy. On their dining-room wall they hung a framed copy of the Declaration of Independence...