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Marshall and Fitzsimmons conceded that therewas no section on the application for informationrelated to criminal records, but then said thatthe admissions office was troubled by the mannerin which she became an orphan, according to thesource...
...They made the argument that Gina's record,although distinguished, was no more distinguishedthan that of many applicants," the source said."It was the orphan angle that was a good hook. Thefact that Gina was an orphan and had come fromdifferent circumstances was what made her unique...
...sort of a manipulative kid," Atkinssaid. "She talked about how her parents were deadand how she was an orphan...
...reputation for honesty took a beating after the Washington Post disclosed that in the wake of his February column-devoted to why Cramer favored thinly traded "orphan stocks"-three out of the four real-life examples he cited saw a huge run-up in both price and volume. Cramer's fund, which held as much as 9% of two of the orphans, was temporarily up $2.5 million in just those four stocks. As a result, Cramer was accused of using his column as a means to generate profits. Charles Jaffe, the personal-finance columnist for the Boston Globe, howled sanctimoniously...
...with a question that may seem, to most readers, groan inducing: "What is time?" The query comes from a narrator whose name is Peter (a detail he drops a third of the way through his story). Now a grown man, he looks back on himself at age 14, an orphan who, after a brief lifetime in various institutions, has unexpectedly been sent to Biehl's Academy, a prestigious school on the outskirts of Copenhagen...