Word: scholarships
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Derek Bok's vision of an "international" Harvard moved ahead slowly this year, boosted by several innovative "debt-for-scholarship" deals, but tempered by Faculty criticism and budgetary constraints...
...debt-for-scholarship" swap means that Harvard buys part of the country's debt at a discounted rate from U.S. banks. The University then forgives the debt in exchange for the country setting up scholarships to the school...
Later this April, Harvard agreed to trade $2.9 million of Mexico's debt for scholarships. The "debt-for-scholarship" swap is a "creative way" for Harvard to continue bringing in a qualified and diverse foreign student body, says Nancy S. Pyle, associate director of the Harvard Institute for International Development...
...Cicely, hard by the Arctic Circle in the state of Alaska. Among the town's 500 inhabitants is one reluctant interloper: Joel Fleischman (Rob Morrow), a New York City native who has been forced to move there as the sole doctor in order to fulfill his medical-school scholarship...
...former Department of Agriculture employee, Cheney was born in Nebraska but grew up in Caspar, Wyo. He won a scholarship to Yale but dropped out after three semesters. "I wasn't a serious student," Cheney told the Washington Post. After bumming around the West for a couple of years, he enrolled at the University of Wyoming and graduated in 1965 with a B.A. in political science...