Word: scholarships
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...free interest that can be withdrawn tax-free if used for college. President Clinton, meanwhile, has talked of a Kidsave account: parents could contribute the $500 per child tax credit plus another $500 that could be withdrawn tax free for the child's education. Some form of the Hope Scholarship tax credit of up to $1,500 is also likely, but parents probably could claim it only if their incomes fell within a certain range when a son or daughter entered college. What combination will survive is uncertain, but taxpayers may need a calculator just to keep track of what...
beauty contest scholarship program...
Jewel left the 49th state for the 50th, but she found Hawaii unappealing and very quickly made her way to her mother. She won a partial scholarship to an art school in Michigan, and after graduating, she sang on street corners to raise train fare to rejoin her mother, who had moved to San Diego. There Jewel worked in a string of dead-end jobs. When mother and daughter ran out of money, they moved from Carroll's tiny apartment and lived in Jewel's Volkswagen van. Her mother bought her own van, and the two often parked side...
Harvard's parents hope to establish a scholarship fund at the University in their son's memory. Friends may offer contributions through the Sun Trust Bank in Nashville...
...world would be a better place, Wolf contends, if we celebrated female sexuality the way so many ancient cultures did. This line of thinking leads to the book's occasional dabblings in scholarship, and the results are often ludicrous. "Confucius, in his Book of Rites," she writes, "held that...it was a husband's duty to take care of his wife or concubine sexually as well as financially and emotionally." It seems to have eluded Wolf that ancient Chinese women might have aspired to something better than life as a concubine (or as the wife...