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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reports to school at 7:50, returns home at 3:15, hits the books from 5 to 9 (with a break for dinner) and goes to sleep at 10:30. Saturdays are little better: from 9 to 5 he attends a prep program in the hope of getting a scholarship to a private school. Then there are piano lessons and a couple of hours of practice a week. If he's lucky, he'll squeeze in his friends on Sunday. "Sometimes I think, like, since I'm a kid, I need to enjoy my life," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burning Out at Nine? | 11/23/1998 | See Source »

...says most applications she sees are copiesof originals onto which text has been pasted. Butshe says applications for nationalcompetitions--like the Truman Scholarship--aremost challenging for students because they havethe most restrictive spacing requirements...

Author: By Scott A. Resnick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Computer Age Can't Kill the Typewriter | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

...general, our students are suffering from pressures, [and] are losing a sense of leisure which is essential for good scholarship in the humanities and social sciences," wrote Seyla Benhabib, chair of the committee on degrees in social studies, in an email. "Anything I can do to alleviate that...

Author: By Tova A. Serkin, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Entering the Season of Dual Submission | 11/20/1998 | See Source »

This interaction can take a variety of forms, whether it is spending time with family members or volunteering for community organizations. In each case, Faculty say their experiences outside the University have an impact on the scholarship and teaching they do inside...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Get Out MUCH? | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

...face, the lottery-for-scholarship idea seems like a model of Third Way, New Democrat innovation. The HOPE money is awarded based on merit, so, unlike welfare or affirmative action, its recipients can't be stigmatized as undeserving. And it doesn't raise anyone's taxes. Dixie's Democrats have finally found a winning strategy consistent with their best principles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Carville Trick | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

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