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Known as Scotty because he was born near Glasgow, Scotland, in 1909, Reston was raised in Dayton, Ohio, under difficult circumstances. He was nearly expelled from the University of Illinois journalism school when a Depression-era bank failure made his $100 tuition check bounce. Memories of his early penury, Stacks says, and his immigrant's outsider mentality stuck with Reston through his life, even though by his 40s he was a well-paid pillar of the East Coast establishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince of Print | 1/13/2003 | See Source »

...eventually won declared they planned to be missionaries, doctors and lawyers. "I tracked them," she says. "And within a few months, not one of them was doing what they said." Then she laughs. "Yes, I've always been a little bitter." Denied the scholarship, Rowley relied on an Iowa tuition grant designed for future teachers. Rowley quickly became a French major because those students got a free year in France. "She said what she thought and always had a firmness of opinion," remembers Moira McCluney, her French professor at Wartburg College. "And compared to the usual Iowa girls...well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coleen Rowley: The Special Agent | 12/30/2002 | See Source »

...most part, elementary and high school programs won't be touched, but state universities will see funding cuts, driving up tuition. Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond just raised tuition for the spring semester by several hundred dollars, a rare midyear hike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Balance A Budget | 12/9/2002 | See Source »

Discovering sources for a viable forgery is practically impossible without perusing ads for calligraphers. Some local calligraphers promise to produce anything that the customer desires. But while substantially lower than actual Harvard tuition, the prices of these forgeries still range from...

Author: By Brandon C. Presser, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Degrees R Us | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

Myat San is at Harvard on a government scholarship, which pays for his entire tuition and provides him with an allowance under the stipulation that he maintain a certain GPA. After graduation, he will serve the remainder of his time (having “disrupted” his service by studying at Harvard), and then work for the government for six years, most likely in an international relations capacity...

Author: By Kristin E. Kitchen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hot Shots | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

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