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...journalists were selected from among 119 applicants, and each will receive a $25,000 stipend in addition to free tuition for courses anywhere in the University...
...that he's out, Boesky claims he's broke, and from all appearances, he is. Until the alimony suit is resolved, Seema Boesky has been ordered by the New York matrimonial court to pay her former husband $15,000 a month. While he receives this stipend, he also has the use of the $2.3 million home in La Jolla, California, that Seema bought in better times for him to use as a postprison retreat. Seema has already tried to seize that house, putting it on the market when Boesky filed his alimony suit, but Ivan's lawyers successfully persuaded...
Trouble is, redirecting a substantial amount of foreign aid would require slicing Israel's annual $3 billion stipend, which strikes most elected officials as a prescription for political suicide. "It's not an option we're considering," Al Gore says flatly. "But it should be," says a White House aide, who hints that the Administration is "considering how and when we might step on the third rail" of foreign assistance. Jerusalem's take "may be safe this year, but that's it. Israel's going to have to take a hit sometime soon...
With national service, the reconciliation may be even more difficult than most Small-scale programs like Boston's City Year (a favorite of Clinton's) work well, driven by both corporate sponsors and government grants. But City Year barely scrapes enough money together to pay its volunteers a small stipend...
Speculation about adultery, love affairs, "Dianagate," "Camillagate" -- the headlines are hurricanes buffeting a fragile, archaic institution that may not be able to withstand the impact. Each new revelation elicits more serious calls for the monarchy to be taxed, for a cut in its numbers who are paid a government stipend, and -- to entertain the unthinkable -- for the whole institution to be abolished. Even knowledgeable observers are writing off Charles and Diana as the next King and Queen. How could they take coronation vows, given their farce of a marriage, she possibly too high-strung to be Queen Consort, he exposed...