Word: succeeded
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...first in his family, and the first among his childhood friends in Savannah, Georgia, to graduate from college. "It's like I made it for all of us," he says. "That's what really pains me. I feel like I am the only one who had the opportunity to succeed." Active in student government and the N.A.A.C.P., Marshall wears a suit to class every day, always anticipating an impromptu meeting with a school administrator. A mentor to fellow black students and local inner-city youth, he shepherded 50 Emory students to Washington last week...
...gain a new lease on life in tackling such genuinely globe-girdling issues as energy supplies, counterterrorism, environmental decay and drug trafficking, as well as disease control-jobs no single country can manage. Says Eban: "In the end, the idea of world community is going to succeed. Therefore, the U.N. should dig in its heels and bide its time. The idea of living without a unitary framework of relations, now of all times, is just too crazy." History today may find the luminous San Francisco conference foolish, but it could yet decide: no, crazy-brave...
Others, including Half, disputed the claim that the IR works its staff too hard, saying the IR will succeed under the new board...
...think teachers fall into two categories," he says. "Those who succeed because they are entertaining and good performers and the rest...
When the clock struck 12 on Saturday night, and the dripping-wet fans were still piling into the rink, tradition, if only temporarily, was put to rest, Midnight Madness proved that students and athletes can unite as one, in support of a school and an athletic program striving to succeed...