The great actress Lily Tomlin stars as Elle, a lesbian grandmother, poet, and impoverished retired college professor, the plot involves granddaughter Sage who seeks her grandmother's help to procure the money for an abortion.
B3 ARTS E1-12 SPOBITUARIESOBITUARIES C16 John U. Monro A white educator who left as dean of Harvard College in 1967 for a low-paying job with an impoverished black college in Alabama, he was 89.
7) Hire a college student or impoverished senior to visit simplicity Web sites and prepare a precis of all the ways you can make your life simpler.
BEIJING — Like parents everywhere, mothers and fathers in Namibia, an impoverished southern African nation, worry about college costs and opportunities for their children.
In other words, the determination and hard work that propel someone to the top of his high-school class — even in cases where that high school is impoverished — are more important to succeeding in college (and, for that matter, in life) than whatever abstract quality the S.A.T. purports to measure.
While college-educated black women do better than impoverished, they are still twice as likely to bury their babies as their white counterparts.
Britain's further-education colleges are the poorest relations of an already impoverished family.American universities are also fiercely competitive: for talented staff and students, for donations, for results (though competition on fees at the top end, where tuition can cost tens of thousands of dollars a year, is yet to come).
One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists comes up with a tale of two college friends – one successful, one less so – who hit on a plan to revitalise impoverished neighbourhoods in Detroit.
Because the rural, impoverished county doesn't have a YMCA or a community center where families congregate, she hits churches, colleges and food banks like the one in Murfreesboro.
If a system of US-type private liberal arts colleges like this one gains ground in Britain, the result will be to relegate an already impoverished state university system to second-class status.
