Word: diplomas
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...award, which includes a monetary prize and a special Latin diploma is given annually to the graduating senior woman who "has given evidence of greatest promise" by her scholarship, conduct and character...
Labor Department statistics show that the average wages of college graduates are 80 percent higher than workers with only a high school diploma. This "wage gap" has doubled since 1978, Reich said...
Elhauge, who graduated from the Law School in 1986, was awarded the Fay Diploma for finishing first in his class. He also received the Sears Prize in both his first and second years for being one of the two top students in his class. He served as articles office cochair on the Harvard Law Review...
...decided to ask around if other people had done anything bad. Rachel A. Cohen '95-96 never really graduated from high school. She got a diploma, but she shouldn't have. "I told them I'd do an independent study but I never handed anything in. Technically I'm still in high school." And this is not her only crime. "I never went to gym," she continues. Worse of all: "I skipped Jewish holidays without feeling guilty...
...would play for family weddings. When I was eight I recorded my first song in Spanish, a country song. When I was nine we started a Tex-Mex band." She stuck with it, spending much of her time as a teenager on the road and getting her high-school diploma through a correspondence course. In 1989 she and her band, Los Dinos, got their big break-a recording contract with giant EMI--and then began to ride the wave of Tejano music, now the fastest- growing segment of the Hispanic recording business. Her father still manages the band, which includes...