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...Supreme Court did not go that far. While not officially ruling on the broad issue, Justice Potter Stewart declared: "We fully recognize that a state has a legitimate interest in protecting and preserving the quality of its colleges and universities and the right of its own bona fide residents to attend such institutions on a preferential tuition basis...
...coached the Granby High varsity for the princely salary of $4,000 and became a two-time state champion-in the sale of encyclopedias, a job he took on the side to keep from getting hungrier. Moving on to Newport News High, he led the team to a bona fide state basketball title and then in 1960 graduated to a $6,500 job at Davidson, a small Presbyterian college in North Carolina better known until then for its academic excellence...
...many musical directions. Guest-conducting engagements took him all over Europe. In 1842 he founded the Leipzig Conservatory. He founded festivals. He played, he taught, he administered, he composed. He also devoted much time to the charming of ladies, in ways that apparently did not develop into bona fide affairs. The real love of his life was his older sister Fanny. As children they were inseparable, sometimes too much so for Felix. "Is the string on which I flutter long, but unbreakable?" he once wrote her. Although each later married happily, they remained the closest of confidants, especially on artistic...
Celestine E. Bohlen '73 and Phillip Haas '76 were denied the right to vote in Cambridge when the Board of Elections decided that they were not bona fide residents of the city...
...NONE have been more twofaced than Drew, who has been hoarding $85 for himself--even while his buddies starved. When Drew accepts Jake's view of things, and the two become bona fide bandits in the film's last shot, we almost feel relieved. Drew's materialistic piety has been wearing us down: since cash is all he cares about, we've already wondered why he has scruples about getting it illegally...