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When Johnson arrived in 1978, he says, the school was still regarded "as a second-tier institution, with no cohesiveness and notable for its can't-haves. We weren't allowed a law school or a program for doctorates." GM now has both. And Johnson vows there will be more where all this uplift has come from. "We will reach the level of Carnegie-Mellon in eight years," he says. "We will soon be a national university...
When he reached the age of 15, Blair joined the Stoney Creek junior team, which plays at the junior C level. Canadian amateur hockey has four levels of juniors: junior C the lowest, junior B, Tier II junior A and Tier I (major) junior...
Players in Tier I are often very high NHL draft picks and have usually foregone higher education to play at that level. Tier II junior A is played at a slightly lower level, and involves far fewer drafted players. Many players in Tier II, however, go on to play collegiate hockey in the United States and Canada...
Rather than head to the major junior A team, however, Blair chose college--and thus a Tier II junior A club for his final year in high school. He turned down Hamilton, his local squad, and moved to Guelph, Ont., to play with one of the most highly regarded junior A clubs in Canada...
...Bachrach discounts the polls, saying, "Where you are is not where you will wind up." And as one political consultant put it, "The definitive poll will not be taken in April, from which a top tier of three candidates will emerge...