Word: eighth
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...Some fellow eighth-graders at Yamhill Grade School in Oregon held an organizational meeting for a student newspaper. I hadn’t shown up, but nobody there wanted to be editor, so they elected me editor in absentia,” Kristof explains. “And I found I loved...
...players, leading to disqualification. But the team quickly recovered. Freshman Michael Shore took to the course after Freshman Week and placed third in his second tournament, while classmates John Christensen and Josh Isner played well throughout the fall. Senior D.J. Hynes recovered splendidly from his knee injury, finishing eighth and 11th in a pair of the fall tournaments. The team practiced inside the Murr Center through the cold New England winter on a new golf simulator provided by the Friends of Harvard Golf, but it wasn’t until spring break that the team could return to the outdoors...
...taking six of the spots, including a sweep of the top four. The Crimson then traveled to the Iona Meet of Champions, where it placed in the overall top third of the competition. The women were seventh among their 23 collegiate opponents, while the men finished eighth of 26. Scherf dominated the 6K course in 21:19.3, winning the meet’s coveted title. Individual accomplishment was again a strong force for Harvard in its annual battle versus Yale but was not enough for the Crimson to overcome its New Haven host and other Ivy rival Princeton, despite record...
...time TV, but this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee was an improbable nail-biter. One of the 13 finalists got reinstated after judges made a spelling error, a Canadian came in second--who knew foreign kids could compete?--and KATHARINE CLOSE, 13, prevailed in her fifth year. The eighth-grader from Spring Lake, N.J., won with ursprache. It means protolanguage. Now try to use it in conversation...
...that her parents are both away. It's actually her friend Callie's house, and they call their bedroom the hotel because it has twin beds side by side. Callie's mother Cecilia, whose husband is also in the gulf, offered to take Lauren in so she could finish eighth grade with the rest of her class, before going off to spend the summer with her grandparents in Colorado. There is no telling when Mom and Dad will be home, but this way Lauren at least gets to stay a little normal a little while longer. "I like sleeping over...