Word: self-help
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...committed citizen of the self-help world, you are, let's assume, fully conversant with The Rules. You've consumed the Chicken Soup books. And you've snapped up 10 Steps to a Great Relationship, even though you have 100 Best Ways to Stay Together on the shelf at home. So why would you possibly be interested in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Faithful, a soon-to-be-published tome that manages to fill 352 pages explicating the proposition that cheating is unwise? (A section on terminating an affair is headed "A Happy Ending? Probably...
...three ministers of the moment--J. Philip Wogaman, Gordon MacDonald and Tony Campolo--are members of what was once a behind-the-scenes coterie of clergymen whose guidance Clinton has sought throughout his presidency. MacDonald and Campolo, both evangelical ministers, are spiritual celebrities, motivational speakers and authors of self-help books. Campolo, a sociology professor at Eastern College in St. Davids, Pa., describes himself as "politically liberal but theologically conservative" and has fought for justice for the urban poor and homosexuals. MacDonald, senior minister at interdenominational Grace Chapel in Lexington, Mass., admitted 11 years ago to an adulterous affair...
...outside scholarship money earned by students will be used to reduce their self-help requirements. Before yesterday's announcement, 60 percent of a student's outside scholarships would be used to reduce direct grant aid. This change, which could allow some students to completely eliminate self-help requirements, is expected to affect about 2,000 students...
...typical "self-help" requirement is about$7,000 per year, with around $5,000 in loans and$2,000 in work-study. In addition, Harvard usuallyrequires $2,000 in the form of a summercontribution...
...portion of Harvard's plan which reduceseach student's self-help by $2,000 echoes a movemade by MIT last March, when the Institute droppedself-help by $1,000 per student...