To a boy brought up in the provinces this ailing ex-art student seemed to have moved effortlessly into a charmed circle, with letters from EM Forster, lunch with Edith Sitwell and tea at Sissinghurst with Harold and Vita.
Though experts said they knew of no college providing such a blanket discount for top-flight students, other institutions have similarly tried to distinguish themselves in this ailing economy by appealing to students' bottom lines.
But as the lives of Americans -- and almost everyone else -- become increasingly transnational, states will realize that they can negotiate over children, students, lovers, the ailing and the elderly just as profitably as they have always done over arms and chicken feed.
A dozen U.S. senators asked the federal government to halt new student enrollments at an ailing Santa Ana chain of more than 90 for-profit colleges accused of misleading prospective students.
Sincerely, Raymond A. Brown Dean Of the 1,825 incoming freshmen at T.C.U., about 100 students — all of them ailing with senioritis — will soon receive a "F.O.G. letter" in July, Mr. Brown said.
They do not summon the courage to ask their ailing grandmother to cosign for a student loan.
Poor students and students with severe disabilities will be left in ailing public schools because voucher-accepting private schools will not want to take them in.
Dr. Park himself donated a kidney to his ailing sister while he was a college student.
In the next round, the choices are similar, but this time, perhaps because the approach is described as "quiet support" for ailing banks, rather than a "cover-up," the students opt for discretion.
With an ailing father back home and a wife with student loans to pay off, he resorted to selling his property in India.
A quarter-century later, students seized the American compound when the United States took in the ailing former Shah for medical treatment.
