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...just received my diploma from P.S. 22 in Manhattan after 70 years, and now you're inviting me to speak at Harvard," the ageless Burns noted. "Come to think of it, that's the only thing that could top playing 'God' in the movies," he added...
Many Indians grow up on the reservation and don't leave until they have reached adulthood. Even today, many Indians go to the city for work without a high school diploma or job skills. Split away from their homes and friends, some jobless and poor, in a strange land, many Indians become alienated and withdraw into bars and never come out. Saunders says most Indians who trek to the city eventually return to the reservation to live. Grace Roderick traveled around the country for many years while her husband was in the service, building a family from Seattle to Virginia...
...need an editorial page because its opinions are so richly blended into its news stories. That bias now seems to have reached the magazine's extremities. Newsweek's cover for the story on the Bakke case: a black and a white male playing tug of war with a diploma. Not precisely the way supporters--or opponents--of affirmative action policies view the issue...
...those who either cannot or do not want to earn a high school diploma, Owen's system has a four-year Occupational Proficiency Training course. Students who are at least 14, and two or more grades behind in achievement, can opt for the O.P.T. program, but only after a written request from their parents. Besides receiving instruction in such crafts as masonry or mechanics, they are drilled in reading, spelling and arithmetic. They "graduate" with a certificate that details their job-related skills...
...system by which cadets rate each other on leadership. It has also abandoned the general order of merit, which prescribed the ranking of each cadet by academic grades as well. Thus the class of '78 will be the first to have no "goat"-the cadet who got his diploma last because he had the lowest overall standing...