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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Internationalization: Now What? | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Internationalization: Now What? | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Lan N. Nguyen, | Title: Internationalization: Now What? | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Little Too Flaky in Alaska | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Five Who Fit the Bill | 5/20/1991 | See Source »

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