Word: scholarships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Paying Up: The Internal Revenue Service began to audit students based on scholarship information it received from the University, in efforts to crack down on tax law violations. KAREN E. ESIELONIS '80 was asked to pay $735 in taxes on a four-year-old state scholarship...
...liberal three-term former Senator from Tennessee who once harbored his own presidential ambitions, is still eagerly appearing onstage with his son, basking in the limelight. So too was Gore born into privilege, while ! Clinton had to achieve it through the sterling academic record that led to his Rhodes scholarship. These divergent life experiences are important because they are the source of so much talk between the two couples...
...from a sense of alienation from other blacks because he was half white. He came from a cotton hamlet in South Carolina and proved himself a brilliant art student in Chicago. Like other black artists and writers, he found refuge from America in Europe: first in Paris (on a scholarship in the 1920s), then in the south of France and finally -- having met and fallen in love with Holcha Krake, a Danish artist 16 years older than he was -- in Denmark, where he painted and exhibited with some success through the 1930s...
...Historical Archive Institute in Moscow decided to unravel the mystery of what really happened to the Czar. Edvard Radzinsky later became a successful playwright, but he never abandoned his quest. He has now produced an unforgettable book in which the evocative power of the dramatist is enriched by scholarship...
This is the plausible premise of John MacArthur, publisher of Harper's. But his book, which might have been valuable scholarship about how things went wrong, self-destructs from the opening page because of his obsessive rage that the war ever took place. To MacArthur, good journalism is by definition antiwar journalism. He cannot credit that anyone of intelligence and good faith might view the gulf conflict as politically necessary, let alone morally just. At most he acknowledges that the war was popular, but only so he can scorn as "commercial" and "cynical" any posture other than a lonely, unyielding...