Word: scholarships
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...better I got to know the Obamas, the more astonished I became at the unlikeliness of Barack's ascension. This is the story of a grandfather whose stubborn will found a match in the austerity of Islam and drove his son to seek a scholarship abroad, which in turn led the young man to Hawaii, where he met and married Ann, a Christian, and had a son--who, at 47, will become the first black President of the U.S. There are so many unlikelihoods in his story that an Obama victory seemed like a fairy tale. As Election Day approached...
...want to thank the Phillips Brooks House Association for all the help that they provided us, including the wonderful reception after the memorial service. We really appreciate PBHA’s establishment of the Peter Wei Cai Memorial Scholarship Fund. Peter loved PBHA and what it is stood for. He was immensely dedicated to the Harvard Emergency Medical Serivces program, and worked incredibly hard to arrange not only more affordable classes for students, but also social gatherings to get to know his peers at HEMS better and more personally. He also loved teaching English as a Second Language so much...
...award,” Berry says. “With everything the foundation stands for it’s just a great honor. Even being in consideration for an award like this is a huge blessing.”As an award winner, Berry will receive an $18,000 scholarship and will be honored at the 2008 NFF Annual Awards Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. The ceremony will also include the induction of the 2008 College Football Hall of Fame.Each school is allowed to nominate one player for the award. Candidates must be seniors or graduate...
...believe that a pragmatic partnership of the public and private sectors has the potential to mitigate the effects of the current recession on college affordability. At the institutional level, colleges and universities can take a number of steps to enhance affordability. Schools with merit-based financial aid or athletic scholarship programs should consider scaling these initiatives back in favor of need-based solutions, which would enhance accessibility. At public universities, only 44 percent of financial aid money goes to need-based programs; it is imperative that this share increase during a recession in order to make continued college attendance possible...
...years before his mother. But Obama's grandmother was always there. She took care of Obama when he was 10 and returned to Hawaii to attend school while his mother spent a few years continuing her anthropological research in Indonesia. At the time, his grandparents helped Obama get a scholarship to Punahou, an élite prep school on the island. All three of them lived in a small, two-bedroom apartment on Beretania Street in Honolulu...