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Researchers call students like Sarah "pushouts," not dropouts. Shelbyville High's new principal, Tom Zobel, says he's familiar with the mind-set. "Ten years ago," he says, "if we had a problem student, the plan was, 'O.K., let's figure out how to get rid of this kid.' Now we have to get them help...
...paranoia and the prodigality of the Marcos regime. Some of the paintings hanging from the walls had been appropriated at will by the Marcoses from the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Scrapbooks contained photographs of properties in New York City and London, presumably belonging to the royal couple. Bea Zobel, an art collector who led volunteers in sorting through the Marcoses' possessions, noted that Imelda may have spent as much as several million dollars on jewels and antiques in a single day. Given her husband's official salary of $5,700 a year, such a shopping spree amounted to more than...
...DIED. ENRIQUE ZOBEL, 77, Filipino industrialist who, as president of Ayala Corp., helped transform a swampy outskirt of Manila into the city's financial district; in Muntinlupa, Philippines. A scion of the wealthy Zobel de Ayala family, Enzo, as he was known by his countrymen, had a reputation as a high-flying but hard-working tycoon who later became a generous philanthropist, particularly after a polo accident in 1991 left him paralyzed from the neck down. Recalled fellow Manila businessman Guillermo Luz: "He was proud to be the working rich...
...Zobel, who was forced to retire in February 2002 when he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70, says he feels fortunate to have served as a judge and will continue to write about the law by examining the Massachusetts Rules of Civil Procedures and publishing a book on the former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
Despite the high-profile Woodward case and his immortalization on “The Practice,” Zobel says he simply hopes to be remembered as “a judge...who was fair and who did his duty and decided matters without regard to whether or not the decision was popular or unpopular...