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Dartmouth's aid increase--which averages out to $819 more per undergraduate, far below Harvard's $1,350--concentrates primarily on reducing self-help requirements--student loans and work-study--and replacing those requirements with outright grants...
...unlike Harvard, which simply reduced by $2,000 the self-help requirements of all students on aid, Dartmouth's reforms use a sliding scale reflecting parent income...
...participants form a motley but impressive menagerie. A yellow, diamond-headed retro pick-up leaves a black Corvette limping along behind it to the finish line. Lake a scene from a surreal self-help movie, "Impatience" is neck and neck with the blue and red "Mid-Life Crisis." The motorcycles--mostly garishly-colored Japanese makes interspersed with the occasional squat, old Harley--are faster than most of the cars, occasionally breaking the 10-second barrier, and their starts are more impressive, the drivers in tight leather racing suits rising up and leaning far out over the handlebars like sprinters before...
This policy will continue even after the University's recent overhaul of its financial aid system, officials said, since federal grant money is not considered "outside scholarships" and therefore this increase will not be subtracted from "self-help" requirements like work-study and loans...
...wildly popular television book club are not enough to establish her prominence on the American cultural scene. As if the $550 million she is reportedly worth is not enough to remind us that Oprah is a powerful woman who can make or break the authors, actors and self-help specialists that dominate her show's guest list...