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Move over Oscar, Emmy, Tony, Grammy. Make way for the Nevelson. The Nevelson? That is the American Book Awards, to be given for the first time this week for the past year's best offerings in 34 categories, including self-help and scifi. The prizes are broader than the venerable National Book Awards they replace, and the presentations will be made with more hoopla. Some wits have suggested that the new prize be called the Bookie. It was named instead after Sculptress Louise Nevelson, 80, who designed the plaque that goes to each winner, along with...
...home will teach young men and women self-help skills and offer prevocational training by subcontracting work from businesses in the Boston area...
That could mean beefed-up self-help packages (work-study and loans) and proportionally smaller scholarship grants. Upperclassmen who are now on financial aid will also be hit: the College cannot cover the entire increase in costs for them, Lyman said...
...Financial aid has more to do with whether people come here than total cost does," she said. "In past years we've been offering a better package for students than Yale has, since the self-help portion of our aid is less...
...tall?-there can be no more elegant and reassuring self-help book than Karla Kuskin's Herbert Hated Being Small (Houghton Mifflin; $6.95). Herbert gauges his mini-stature by standing next to his parents, always a mistake. Depressed, he sets out on his own. So does Philomel, who feels humongous next to her little family. But when boy and girl meet in the woods, they discover that they are the same size. Everything is relative, observes this cascade of wise rhymes. Einstein would have been pleased...