Word: ranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dubbed him Top Hat and marveled at their good fortune. "He was a big catch, and went on for a very long time," says James Nolan, formerly the FBI's top Soviet counterintelligence specialist. "There aren't many who start out as medium-grade officers and rise to the rank of general...
Every day, I cry for about an hour when I remember watching someone else give the valedictory address. I wake up at night in a cold sweat from dreams of a class rank list without my name on top. Professors don't want me in their classes. Employers don't want to hire me. As the result of not being officially named No. 1, I have been reduced to a wreck, a clinging shadow of my former self...
...knocked out of the top spot simply because he got a low grade in physics at the wrong time. But the truth is that many schools don't have a strict grade average-rank correlation. There are many reasons for this--most schools don't want their champion basket weaver and gym student beating out their science genius to become valedictorian. Some schools weight honors courses more heavily. Other schools decide to emphasize part or all of the senior year more heavily, figuring that it will be the toughest...
Siemens, 18, is suing his school district because of what he feels is the unfairness of a process that left him ranked second in his class, leaving a classmate with the highest academic rank--and the coveted honor of valedictorian...
That operating style is becoming a liability. Arafat's ingrained, lifetime habits of secrecy and high-handedness have already caused serious splits among the P.L.O. leadership and deep concern among the rank and file. Even many of his closest, most loyal associates believe he is incapable of transforming himself from guerrilla chief to government executive, which he must do if he is to create the new state they regard as the inevitable outcome of the Palestinian struggle. They are worried that if he cannot make that transition, the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza will rebel against his authoritarian...