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...know the fellow on the left, but the one with the notebook is probably a little less familiar. He is John Parmelee, 17, a high school senior in the District of Columbia who saw his dream come true last week when he interviewed Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office. "He put me at ease immediately," Parmelee said. The student spent ten minutes with the President, asking him, among other things, how life had been different when Reagan was 17. "I wasn't doing what you're doing," the President said with a smile to his White House visitor...
Parmelee's session with the President was part of Odyssey Project, a joint endeavor of Time Inc. and the District of Columbia public schools. The program's participants discuss heroes in literature, then write profiles of Washington notables whom they admire. This year the ten students who took part in the project picked, among others, a city official, a sports star -- and one U.S. President. After choosing Reagan last winter, Parmelee was astonished when his interview was granted. His article on the President, including pictures by Odyssey Student Photographer Marta Effinger, will appear in Looking for Heroes, the Odyssey Project...
...What you write about is up to you, and you have to learn to be independent." More students may soon learn firsthand what Riley means: Washington school officials are considering expanding the Odyssey Project concept so that special training in writing skills will be available to all of the district's students...
When New York State Supreme Court Justice Lewis Douglass sent convicted Drug Dealer Agapito Lopez up the river to prison last year, he noted that $440,000 had been found in Lopez's Brooklyn apartment. That was merely cash on hand: in addition, the district attorney's office claims, Lopez owns three houses in New York, a car dealership, and several apartments in his native Puerto Rico. Last week Judge Douglass decided to redistribute some of Lopez's assets. He ordered the dealer to hand over more than $2 million in restitution to New York City's drug-rehabilitation programs...
...Mandarin Oriental, a leading chain of hotels from San Francisco to Bangkok. Its Hong Kong operations range from the local Mercedes dealership to Mrs. Fields Cookies franchises. But the core of the company's holdings is $3.2 billion worth of real estate in Hong Kong's central business district -- fully 65% of the office and commercial space in the area...