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That applies to the students as well. Lisa Yen, 19, a senior in Indianapolis last year, had her choice of Yale, Princeton, Indiana University and DePauw. Says she: "I really wanted to go to Yale, but DePauw gave me a big scholarship to enter their management fellows program." The program, which combines liberal arts with a semester-long paid internship at a FORTUNE 500 company, is one reason that DePauw's applications have gone up 30% in the past six years. At Tufts University, Admissions Dean Michael Behnke occasionally gets a call from a prospective student confessing that another...
...warring substances which subtly oppose the advance of the 'essences' and the 'principles' towards the field of depth. These two substances are water and grease...every campaign of beauty products therefore prepares a miraculous conjunction of these enemy liquids...decay is expelled...France is having a great yen for cleanliness...
...mesmerized by Mondale? No yen for Glenn? No heart for Hart? New Hampshire voters will still have plenty of options at the polls next week. A record 22 candidates have paid a $1,000 filing fee to be on the state's Democratic ballot...
...agreed to a fourth year of restraint on the number of cars exported to the U.S. The new ceiling: 1.85 million, up from 1.68 million. Ford, Chrysler and American Motors protested that the increase was unjustified in view of the trade unbalance between the two countries, the undervalued yen, and tax advantages they claim the Japanese enjoy. General Motors' reaction was more muted, since it has its own Japanese strategy. GM next year plans to begin importing small Japanese cars, and last week it unveiled a model of a subcompact to compete with Japanese imports in the late 1980s...
When he left in 1955, the collection had grown to 5.9 million volumes, an increase "which speaks for his value to Harvard," Yen Tsai-Fend, librarian of Harvard College, said yesterday...