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This spring, Walker, 15, the oldest of eight children, got another chance. But she failed again, by four-tenths of a point, on the Iowa test's reading section. She is headed to summer school for one final shot at getting into high school in the fall. If she doesn't make it, she will go to one of the city's "transition centers"--an educational way station for kids who haven't qualified for high school but are too old to remain in a regular eighth-grade classroom...
...Kennedy clan's five surviving originals (there were nine). It could be served in the Maryland assembly by delegate Mark Shriver, nephew of the martyred John Kennedy (and one of 29 grandchildren of Joe and Rose). And it could fall under the growing political hand of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, oldest child of the murdered Robert Kennedy, now Maryland's lieutenant governor and touted for higher office...
...this fails to explain why Miller, whowas on the select state team every year of herhigh school career, and was recruited by NotreDame (her father and oldest sister's alma mater)and Georgetown (for volleyball), would chooseHarvard...
Going into Saturday's 134th Harvard-Yale Regatta, believed to be the oldest official intercollegiate competition of any kind, the Harvard heavyweights finished as the No. 7 heavyweight crew in the country...
...only exception to this transformation was the Porcellian club, founded in 1792 and the oldest of the organizations, which has never entertained non-members in its Mass Ave. building...