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Each member of the panel independently ranked their top eight choices to determine the winner. The criteria for selection included leadership abilities, academic excellence and community service in addition to superior athletic skills...
...Grille’s lawyer, James J. Rafferty, won a one-week stay, from May 23-29, of the ABCC suspension so that his appeal could be heard in Middlesex County Superior Court, and the bar remained open until the stay expired...
...Taiwan's rigorous academic meritocracy, good students are praised and respected; superior students become objects of local pride. A-bian was the finest student Tainan County had ever seen. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. The takeaway from his childhood successes: as long as you have boned up on whatever subject is at hand, you will succeed. That principle...
...controversy surrounding his confession. "American journalism has hit an all-time low," wrote a Florida woman. "Reporters who hoped to 'hit it big' with this story only exhibited their ignorance of history and war." A New Jerseyan shared her disgust and was "taken aback by the arrogance and superior attitude of the press. Your need to know everything gives you no right to eviscerate Kerrey. How dare you?" A Louisiana man who served in the military believes that Kerrey has nothing to be ashamed of: "I surely wish the media would stop hounding the men and women who served...
...Rafferty won a one-week stay of the ABCC suspension so that his appeal could be heard in Middlesex County Superior Court, and the bar remained open throughout last week...