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...night. At one conference a question arose -- about the relative heights of shooter and victim -- that stumped the real lawyers. "Harrison was the only one who knew the answer," recalls chief assistant prosecutor George Ward, "because he had studied the pictures of the two persons. He really did his homework...
...Alabama's Sumiton Elementary. "One of the first things our teachers noticed," says vice principal Ilene Black, "was the change in attitude of the students. The parents are very positive; they love the fact that their children like it; they don't have to make them do their homework." John Aston, headmaster at the Undercroft Montessori School in Tulsa marvels that "some of our students are already performing at a masterful level" after less than one year...
...bounds eagerly out of bed at 5:30 a.m., and always has. Sununu is a night owl who, when studying engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, would organize a marathon bridge game or keep fraternity brothers awake while thwokking a lacrosse ball off his wall, then handle his homework in an hour or so before class. Bush is so exquisitely considerate that at meals, without breaking conversation, he will shift his water glass to give the waiter more room as he arrives with the soup. When Sununu receives guests in his White House office, he will pour himself...
...Styrofoam trays, plates and cups were choking the local landfill, Styers and a dozen or so like-minded students began marching through the cafeteria earlier this year carrying reusable dishes brought from home. They were branded "tree huggers" and "crazy," but Styers and his friends persisted. They did their homework, figuring the cost of recycling schemes. They tipped off the local media. And they repeated their protest every Wednesday. In March they took their appeal to the school board, topping it off with a well-rehearsed pitch for recycling Styrofoam. Their determination paid off. Starting this month, used lunchware from...
...built the fund over the years, Lynch acquired a prodigious reputation for doing his homework. Unlike most money managers, Lynch has made a point of visiting companies before he buys their stock. On a typical tour he would call on three firms a day and take note of everything from the alertness of secretaries to the cleanliness of parking lots. In one visit to Chrysler he first met Chairman Lee Iacocca and then walked into an auto plant to talk with workers. "People often ask me to explain my strategy," he says. "When I tell them my strategy...