Word: scholarships
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Much of Conway's scholarship has involved studying the memoirs, letters and diaries of women...
...gave $1 million to the Library of Congress last Wednesday. Financier George Soros spent some $2 million last year toward making marijuana legal for medical use. Now comes leveraged-buyout mogul Ted Forstmann, who together with Wal-Mart heir John Walton is spending $100 million to give 40,000 scholarships to disadvantaged children who want an alternative to public school. This week the Children's Scholarship Fund will announce that it has been besieged with applications for the $600 to $1,600 annual stipends, even though strapped parents will have to come up with an average of $1,000 themselves...
...average Catholic school tuition, which is roughly $2,000 to $5,000 annually. I agree with Forstmann on the magic of Sister Mary William and company. If I'd gone to my neighborhood school instead of the parish school, it's doubtful I would have gone to college on scholarship or have the life I now do, the result of diagramming hundreds of sentences and writing countless essays under boot-camp conditions. But there's a difference: no one thought non-Catholic taxpayers should subsidize that choice or that money should be taken away from the public schools...
Drew Burke is pre-med at Johns Hopkins. As a scholarship student from working-class roots in New Orleans, he knows what it is to struggle, but he is drawn to the fast and easy life of his pampered friends--Bahar Richards, a rich bitch who spins friends into enemies almost as quickly as she spends money and Jake, her hot hunky brother, an architecture major at Franklin & Marshall, lean and tanned from working building sites all across the country. Drew feels like Bahar is part of his soul--he would do anything for her. And when it comes...
Financial aid officers were not able to verify when the scholarship fund will take effect or whether current undergraduates will benefit from the Klein scholarships...