Word: scholarshipped
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...movie has wrapped, and reality has set back in at Horner. Calvin Mitchell, 10, a boy Winfrey befriended, says, "They had a shooting just yesterday, near where I live. It's tough ((Horner)), but if you mind your business, you'll be all right." He wants to win the scholarship Winfrey's endowing with her salary from the movie: "I know I can do it, and can't nobody tell me anything different." There's always hope...
...name-drop Joseph Andrews and Walker Evans without someone throwing a brick at my head, will I? And most frighteningly of all, somewhere in the back of my mind, the thesis clock has started to tick--freedom will soon come crashing to an end, and long nights of genuine scholarship await. Sometime between now and unemployment, I've got to squeeze in some education...
Some students turned Harvard down because of misconceptions, Evans said. One student thought a ROTC scholarship could not be used at the college, while another was uncertain as to whether the ROTC scholarship would remain valid. One student feared being restricted to two extracurricular activities...
...issue that Lani Guinier attacks in her writings -- the tyranny of the majority, as James Madison described it -- is neither obscure nor an unworthy target. But it's small wonder that few people are familiar with her scholarship. Turgid and ambiguous, Guinier's writing is not the stuff of bedtime reading. A case in point is her 48,948-word article in the Michigan Law Review of March 1991, titled "The Triumph of Tokenism," which Clinton singled out last week in explaining why he was withdrawing her nomination. "Many of her analyses I agree with," he said, but he dismissed...
...lives in an apartment 10 minutes away from the Yard and walks to work. He takes time off from both activism and scholarship to hike and listen to a 500-strong CD collection, which is heavy on the Romantic composers. He reads Wittgenstein and the occasional contemporary gay fiction. He cooks Indian food...