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...weapons in this war are called "merit-based aid" and "preferential packages." The latest skirmish began in February, when Princeton University, whose $8.4 billion endowment is the largest per student of any U.S. college, announced that it would no longer require its scholarship recipients to take out loans as part of aid packages, replacing them with outright grants. This change will save individual students tens of thousands of dollars and make Princeton more attractive than some equally prestigious campuses--unless they match the offer. Some are doing just that...
...from Singapore to Bangkok?so he was energized when the Pizza Company shot out of the starting blocks. "We went from zero to 70% market share in our first weekend,'' he says. His new company even set a record for pizza deliveries in a single day. But a weekend skirmish doesn't decide a war. Heinecke contends that Tricon's head office in Dallas has given its Thai unit an unlimited budget to drive him into the ground. "They're out to kill us,'' he says...
...seen military flare-ups in these parts before. In 1983, to the north, a Soviet fighter downed a Korean airliner that strayed into Soviet airspace, killing all 269 aboard. And Saturday's mid-air collision occurred just outside the Gulf of Tonkin, where in 1964 President Johnson used a skirmish involving the USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy as a pretext for launching air strikes against North Vietnam, beginning what came to be known as the Vietnam...
While Murphy lost control of the game on the ice, things got out of hand on the sidelines as well, a scene that probably hasn't occurred since Harvard's incredible stretch run during the late 1980s and early 1990s. A skirmish ensued on the visitor's side of the rink between a group of rabid fans. Chants of "H.U.P.D." thundered from the student section, as the men in blue restored peace and order to the stands...
...more movies than I have," says Lee. "And better ones." In some of these films you will find sensational exploits that are echoed in Crouching Tiger. The vision of a lady thief flying over rooftops is a highlight of Yuen's 1994 Fire Dragon. And the up-a-tree skirmish? Catch the three warriors perched on flaming poles in the 1993 Iron Monkey. This time it's two good guys (Yen and Yu Rong-guang) against one preternatural baddie (Yam Sai-goon). The heroes try to keep their equilibrium while dodging flame darts from Yam; they use burning sticks...