Word: vail
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...double standard also exists within the criminal-justice system. San Diego elementary-school teacher Thad Jesperson was sentenced to 15 years to life last year for molesting four girls over two academic years. Also in 2005, a South Carolina judge gave Mark Vail, a former church schoolteacher and coach, 10 years for having sex with a student, then 12. Female perpetrators, by contrast, tend to get brief sentences and probation, as in Lafave's case and Letourneau's first...
...fires set in Vail, Colo., by protesters from Earth Liberation Front were an environmental wake-up call for the ski industry, Auden Schendler, 35, is a triple shot of espresso. Hired the next year by Aspen Skiing Co. (ASC), he has become the most visible of a crop of experts charged with cleaning up the industry's act. Between keeping the lodges toasty and draining the creeks for snowmaking, downhill-skiing companies in the late 1990s were major consumers of natural resources. And ASC, which now operates four mountains, two hotels and 12 restaurants in the Aspen-Snowmass area...
...usually fair. Gerald Ford was a talented athlete who was a star football player at the University of Michigan and coached at Yale. Still, he was lampooned as a clod because he tripped down a flight of airline stairs in Austria and was filmed falling while skiing in Vail, Colorado. Those images of Ford were the material for send-ups by a rising young comic named Chevy Chase, who was one of Saturday Night Live?s stars. SNL went after Ford so many times that he finally went on the show and kept up the gag by telling Chase...
...perennially insufficient to meet the needs of the College’s student body, it is unconscionable that Harvard abides the existence of this small handful of groups and their monopoly over some of the choicest opportunities available to undergraduates. Trips to Bermuda, World Tours, intercessions spent skiing in Vail, performances in major motion pictures—these marks of unspeakable privilege stand in stark contrast to the opportunities afforded to most other student organizations. As other groups scrounge for space, all-male a cappella groups devour rooms for their rehearsals. One even has a posh clubhouse...
...Point scholars when they aren't performing for donors, you meet kids who are doing a lot better than those plaints suggest. Some remain cut off from their families, but many have repaired relationships with even the most conservative parents. If you read the online Point bio for Matthew Vail, 19, for instance, it says he "sits alone" at family events, "not allowed to have even a gay friend participate in his family life." But in the months since Vail provided the information for that bio, his parents, who live in Gresham, Ore., have softened considerably, and his boyfriend, Jordaan...