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...decision I had to make to either be mediocre at both sports, because I would have to divvy up my time, or try to excel at one,” Wahlberg explains. “And I think the direction I went was towards baseball, because I thought that I could maybe have a career after school in baseball. In football I was physically hindered in some ways, height-wise especially...
...while fluctuating course enrollments may be a serious annoyance to professors, most agree that they are able to hire qualified teaching fellows anyway, who excel even if they missed the first class of the year. Teaching fellows are capable of reading syllabi at home, and can make up the first staff meeting of the course with the professor...
...being forced to resign from the army because of his ties to Islamic radicals, Abdul Manaf kept up those relationships, traveling regularly to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also remained closely connected to JI, Malaysian officials say. Records show Abdul Manaf was an executive at a JI-linked company named Excel Setia, and that two of its directors were JI figures who are now in detention. Police aren't yet sure of Abdul Manaf's exact role in JI or the strength of his ties to al-Qaeda, but regional intelligence sources say he could be a key link between...
...that commitment to winning in spite of all obstacles and distractions, in the end, is what the senior class leaves behind as its legacy. Far from the most successful class in the program’s history, the Crimson seniors nonetheless showed an uncanny determination to excel and improve as individuals...
...finally, there is finance. To submit a credible application to Harvard, a candidate has to have attained a sufficient educational level in high school to convince Byerly Hall that he can excel in such a high-powered academic environment. This stiff requirement generally limits applicants to students at a nation’s top handful of high schools, which tend to be comprised largely of comparatively wealthy students who are more likely to have visited America. “This is why a lot of the time, everyone from a certain country will come from the same school...