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Although students do not need an endorsement to be chosen for the Rhodes scholarship, it does add a free letter of recommendation to the eight-letter maximum that they can use in their Rhodes applications, which are due October...
...summer was, in large measure, a learning curve, trying get up to speed on issues...with the...people with whom I've not worked closely in the past...and how I might provide the maximum value added to the institution," he said. "In my case, I'm building upon what Jerry Green had done, but I'm not Jerry Green...
...Fisher, at 17, of Merrick, Long Island, came from mostly white communities of nice houses. But it's in the inner cities where an interlocking universe of guns, gangs and the drug trade has made mayhem a career path for kids and equipped them with the means to do maximum damage along the way. Children ) involved in the drug trade get guns to defend themselves against older kids who want their money. For the ones still on a piggy-bank budget, the streets offer rent-a-guns for $20 an hour. Who can be surprised, then, that on a typical...
...rule on subsequent ones. When New York State passed its juvenile-offender law in 1978, the outcome was regarded as the toughest new arrangement in the nation. On the surface, it was: those from 13 through 15 accused of heinous felonies were moved from Family Court, where the maximum penalty was 18 months regardless of the crime, to the State Supreme Court. But the law allows only for lighter sentences than would be given to adults who are convicted of equivalent crimes -- meaning the kids are often back on the streets in a few years, jobless, with a felony conviction...
This season the Crimson will be at least a little closer to its maximum potential. Meringoff is still out--"the trainer says that groin injuries can take a long time," Fish says, but Rueb is back. His presence should be felt immediately...