| Score aid information at College Goal Sunday
You've marked your calendar for Super Bowl Sunday, now consider this weekend's College Goal Sunday. College Goal Sunday is a free, nationwide program to help students and families complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA. It's being held in the Firstenburg Student Commons at Washington State University Vancouver at 2 p.m. Sunday. The program is open to all students, not just those who intend to apply to WSU. Filling out the FAFSA's preapplication can take about two hours and requires ample paperwork. Alyson Galloway, who works in the financial aid office at WSUV, said even students from wealthier families should fill out the FAFSA. "The concept of 'Do I make too much money?' is a myth about financial aid," Galloway said. "Students from million-dollar families still qualify for Stafford Loan programs." To snag a low-interest Stafford Loan (now hovering at 6.8 percent but due to go down to 6 percent in July), students must fill out a FAFSA.
A Financial-Aid Bias?
The financial-aid determination process is pretty much a black box. You put your data in, whether on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form handled by the U.S. Education Department or the College Scholarship Service (CSS) form processed by the College Board, send along last year's tax forms and out the other end come scholarship and loan packages from the colleges that have accepted your child. How those numbers are determined is up to each school's own financial-aid office. But there's a surprising degree of sameness in the way these offices operate and in the lack of explanation they provide to parents. And it's no wonder they look so similar: They are all using the same playbook. The College Board, a membership organization of most colleges and universities in the country, claims it doesn't tell schools how to evaluate financial need.
Djokovic fells the giant and prepares for unknown
It was a tiny gesture but one that spoke volumes about Djokovic's confidence, signifying his feeling of equality with the great man - obviously not in terms of achievements and titles won but regarding the here and now. The 20-year-old clearly felt he was ready to bring Federer's run of 10 successive grand slam finals to an end but nobody was prepared for the nature of the 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 defeat. .
College Publishes Famed Killer's Diary
After a brief romance, Brown became pregnant. In a series of emotional letters, Brown implored the reluctant Gillette to marry her. His responses were cold and flippant.
In July 1906, the pair took a trip to the Adirondack Mountains -- Brown still hoping for a marriage proposal. Instead, Gillette took her on an afternoon boat ride on Big Moose Lake, where prosecutors said he hit her in the head with a tennis racket, causing her to fall into the lake and drown.
There were no eyewitnesses but Gillette was convicted on circumstantial evidence, despite his claim that Brown had drowned accidentally and he had panicked and fled.
The story might have faded from public interest if not for Dreiser's 1925 novel the later movie version which won six Academy Awards.
Reality knocks pageant on its sash
The 87-year-old Miss America Pageant has seen a slow and steady decline of viewers for more than a decade. Discovery Channel-owned TLC is its second cable network since ABC dropped the pageant from its lineup in 2005. It moved from its longtime home in Atlantic City, N.J., to Las Vegas in 2006 in an attempt to build some momentum. It's already tried a menu of reality TV gimmicks, dropped the sashes, brought back the sashes and promised a return to old-school glamour. But it rarely laughed at itself. "I don't think the past attempts were enough; they were little Band-Aids," said Sam Haskell, Miss America Organization chairman. "In order for us to survive – and I want us to flourish, not just survive – we need a younger generation to support it and find it entertaining." That means competing with reality TV and, producers say, finding a Miss America who can go toe-to-toe with the Britneys and the Parises on the red carpet – though not at the night club.
Charting a Creative Path Out of Trouble
It is a place where failing students get a second chance. Media Arts showers them with attention, treats them with respect, offers plenty of independence and, along the way, gives them the opportunity to lay down their own hip-hop beats and raps. Some days, it all works beautifully. Today is not going to be one of those days. Murphy minimizes the video image, which was recorded earlier that morning. She stands, a tall, striking woman whose long red hair glides down the back of a black leather jacket. An ankle tattoo is visible. Behind her is a cabinet, which has been riffled. Cash has been taken. The girl on the surveillance tape is the sole suspect. "I'm going to have to talk to her," Murphy says. -0- "I am really friendly "I wonder if I'll make it to my 40s.
China can build things. Why can't India?
They are much more innovative, unlike the Chinese who excel in copying western products and designs. It is unfair to expect Indian cities to have the same facilities as in China, just after 15 years of opening up. And in these 15 years, infrastructure has been a focus area only for the last 5 years maybe. If India can achive 8% growth with all these constraintts, it can defenitely do better in the longer term. India is not in any race with China. She needs to focus only on her on growth - a more equitable and balanced growth than the Chinese model - while ensuring the basic human dignity, liberty and freedom to all her people. .
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