Word: self-help
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...Byerly or Mass. Hall is sure what form these changes will take, but it seems likely that they will include a general reduction in self-help requirements--loan and work-study commitments which were targeted by other universities in the first wave of this spring's financial aid revolution...
...next policy overhaul occurred a month later at MIT. Officials there reduced self-help requirements--loans and work-study contributions built into nearly every aid package--by $1,000 for all students. They said the changes were spurred by the increased generosity of Yale, Princeton and Stanford...
However, what is likely to change at Harvard is the percentage of aid met by self-help requirements. Miller said this portion of the student's burden might be absorbed by an increase in direct grants, or reduced using outside scholarship funds on the Stanford model...
...this semester, President Neil L. Rudenstine and Byerly Hall promised to replace this skirmishing with a more formal program this fall--reforms which likely would reduce self-help requirements for many students...
...famously avid reader of self-help books, and it shows when he says things like "The Magellan within all of us is going to save us." It's a reference not to mutual funds but to the Portuguese explorer, by way of The Truman Show, which Carrey likes to see as an allegory about self-actualization: "It's a hopeful story. It's about a man who will not be beaten. Presented with a challenge, he becomes the explorer he always wanted to be. In my best scenario, I want to turn out to be Truman Burbank. I want...