Word: self-help
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...seems obvious to me that despite what they're saying, things are getting tougher and it's mostly hitting upperclassmen," says Christina Spaulding '84, who had all of a $3000 scholarship replaced by "self-help"--jobs and recommended loans--this year. She, like Weiner, was told that the adjustment came because her family's income went up, but she says that the two factors don't nearly balance...
...Susan Damplo '83, who lost a $3100 scholarship to self-help because a sibling had finished college, agrees that "If I'd known they were going to do this to me when I was applying, I'm sure I'd have given it a lot more thought...
Frequently, herpes seems to strike nice, healthy, educated, clean-cut Caucasians of the middle and upper classes. Indeed, one survey says that 95% of sufferers are white. Skeptics point out that blacks and the poor, who are not part of the self-help culture, are unlikely to turn up in herpes surveys, and may have more crushing problems to cope with than venereal disease anyway. "Blacks get it, they just aren't obsessed with it," says Tom W. Moore, who works at a Mississippi VD clinic. Some researchers suggest that middle-class hygienic habits cause vulnerability: children who are kept...
...unwarranted horror could be visited on one of his own ministers? For a year Kushner wrestled with the question in writing. The result, published in 1981, was When Bad Things Happen to Good People (Schocken Books; $10.95). It is an odd book-part classical theology, part cracker-barrel, self-help philosophy. But when an excerpt appeared in Redbook in the October 1981 issue, it made the author a national figure. Kushner, 47, the rabbi of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass., remembers the turning point well: "It was Rosh Hashana. We had just come home from services and were very tired...
...that cities, which find interest rates too high to float municipal bonds, can rebuild bridges, sewers, firehouses, schools and deteriorating mass-transit systems. Such a revolving fund, he said, should "selfdestruct in ten years" as revitalized cities repay the loans. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of Chicago's self-help Operation PUSH, charged that before Reagan, federal programs for the cities were "humane, sensible, broadly based," while under Reagan they are "anti-poor, anti-worker, antiblack, part of a meanness mania against the masses...