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...several Faculty members said they support a modification of the current system so that students do not feel that a diploma needs an honors distinction to accompany...
...founded his first Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio in 1969, and by 1996 the chain (Wendy was his daughter Melinda's nickname), consisted of 4,800 establishments in the United States and more than 30 countries across the globe. He achieved all of this without earning his high school diploma (he did finally receive one in 1993), which he later listed as one of the biggest mistakes of his life. "We have 4,000 restaurants today, but if I had gotten my high school diploma, we might have 8,000," he said...
...Walker passed a proficiency exam and graduated early from Tamiscal High. He asked that the name on his diploma be changed to Sulayman Al-Lindh. He never picked up the certificate. Soon he told Nana that he had found an Arabic-language school in San'a, Yemen, on the Internet. "The language spoken in Yemen is closer to the holy language of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet," explains Nana. Walker also felt it would be easier to practice Islam in a Muslim country. In December 1998 he left for the Middle East...
...will have to scour the crowds and rope myself a hubby, Texas-rodeo style.With the mass of people crammed into Tercentenary Theater, I'll stealthily scour the crowds looking for an unsuspecting spectator and pounce like a cat with three hungry mouths to feed. Realizing that my brand new diploma really is worth its weight in gold--ha ha sucka, fools gold that is!--I will leave the fairy-tale land of undergraduate life with a screaming three-headed bundle on my back and a dazed, weakened man dragging behind me, still confused about why he blacked out after...
...Walker passed a proficiency exam and graduated early from Tamiscal High. He asked that the name on his diploma be changed to Sulayman Al-Lindh. He never picked up the certificate. Soon he told Nana that he had found an Arabic-language school in San'a, Yemen, on the Internet. "The language spoken in Yemen is closer to the holy language of the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet," explains Nana. Walker also felt it would be easier to practice Islam in a Muslim country. In December 1998 he left for the Middle East...