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That's what motivated Carlos Watson to found the highly successful college-prep program Achiever.com Watson's self-taught grandmother, the granddaughter of slaves in Jackson, Miss., graduated from college and was followed by her six siblings, seven children and 19 grandchildren. "There's a real belief in college in my family," Watson says. With the help of school districts around the country, he recruits at-risk students--most of whom hadn't thought of college--for an intensive online course that covers nailing the SATs, applications and scholarships. Result: 85% of Achiever.com students...
Gore for his part was taught at his prep school to choose the hard right over the easy wrong, which is a good lesson, assuming it's easy to tell those apart. He knows he won the national popular vote, but under the Constitution, that does not matter. He believes he won Florida as well, but his virtual victory slipped through his hands and broke into tiny pieces, which he was desperately trying to paste together by hand and by law. Was Gore just supposed to concede all over again, with Democrats across the land complaining that the only reason...
VOTER NEWS SERVICE Four years' prep time for one day of exit polling, and they can't get Florida right...
Clemente arrived on the Harvard campus in the fall of 1997, and while he didn't get to start immediately, he knew he would eventually. In fact, the prep school league in which he had played was known for having Division I caliber players, so Clemente wasn't worried about his game...
Clemente also recognizes the importance of rebounding. At 6'7, Clemente is one of the tallest and strongest players on the team. He claims that he could rebound in prep school and that Harvard somehow dulled his skills, but that he will pick up seven to eight rebounds a game this season...