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OK, you don’t have a 4.0 GPA, you’re not the senior class president, you can’t throw a football fifty yards, and your SAT scores aren’t generating letters or phone calls from Harvard, Yale or Princeton. So, you’ll never qualify for a college scholarship, right?

Not necessarily! There are lots of scholarships, and other kinds of financial aid for which you might qualify. Some colleges may offer you academic grants with a GPA of 3.0 and SAT scores of 1000. Ashland University offers scholarships to twins. Many church affiliated colleges offer grants to students who are members of their religious denomination. And that’s just the beginning.

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Young was an early head of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or Mormon Church. He helped maintain the unity of the church after Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was assassinated in 1844. He led the great migration west in 1846–47 and was the director of the settlement at Salt Lake City, where the Church is headquartered today. He defended Mormon interests during the Utah War and managed to avoid a real break with the US government. What was the Mountain Meadows massacre?

CNN, a division of the Turner Broadcasting System owned by Time Warner, is widely credited with introducing the concept of 24-hour news coverage. Its services are available to more than 1.5 billion people in over 212 countries and territories. CNN's coverage of the Gulf War and other conflicts and crises of the early 1990s, including, perhaps most famously, the Battle of Mogadishu, led to the coining of the term "the CNN effect," which means what?

Fosse was a musical theater choreographer and director who developed a jazz dance style that is immediately recognizable. It exudes a stylized, cynical sexuality and employs bowler hats, fishnet stockings, canes, and chairs as props; these items have become Fosse's distinctive trademarks. He choreographed and directed shows like Sweet Charity and Chicago, and he earned a Tony Award for Pippin and an Emmy for Liza with a Z. Fosse also earned an Oscar for what film?