Word: georgetown
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...third tier schools then included Georgetown, Duke and University of Virginia...
...Carole S. Fungaroli, an English professor at Georgetown University and the author of Traditional Degrees for Non-Traditional Students, has personally experienced the effect of a big-name school--and it seems little to do with the actual education...
...Once I started teaching at Georgetown, doors started opening. It is not P.C. to say this, but [a high-prestige degree] really matters in the real world...
Rock knows about hard work and hard times. He was born in Georgetown, S.C., and grew up in a poor part of the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. His dad (who died in 1988) worked as a truck driver for the New York Daily News; his mom was a schoolteacher (she now runs a day-care center). Rock was bused from his black neighborhood in Bed-Stuy to a white high school in Bensonhurst. He says the students there were "worse than white trash--they were white toxic waste," and would beat him up regularly. Funny thing was, even though...
...experts doubt the Supreme Court will take up the case. Says Georgetown University law professor David Cole: "On a symbolic level this is an extremely important decision," a small victory in the struggle of gays and lesbians to participate fully in civil society. However, he adds, "on a technical level, this applies only to the Boy Scouts in New Jersey...