As a senior in high school, I vowed to get out of Chicago, to escape the pain and tragedy.

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Others who received Harvard rejections include "Today" show host Meredith Vieira, who was turned down in 1971 as a high-school senior.

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Bundy, who was clocked at 100 miles per hour as a high-school senior in Oklahoma and who was selected by the Orioles with the fourth pick last June, hadn't surrendered a hit through 13 innings heading into Monday night's start.

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Police identified the gunman as Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a senior at the high school in the southern Finnish town of Tuusula, about 30 miles north of Helsinki.

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Now I remember congregating with my high school buddies as a junior and senior watching Tyson fights on HBO in the late eighties.

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In the clinic one afternoon, I joined him as he saw a seventeen-year-old high school senior named Janelle, who had been diagnosed with CF at the age of six and had been under his care ever since.

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Plus, in high school he received the Meritorious Distinction for Senior Thesis: Female Empowerment as a result of Microfinance Institutions in Third-World Nations.

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They also include serendipitous interactions between such inner strengths and happenstance, such as with a capable 8th grade student scared to start high school who met a new neighbor who is a popular senior at the high school he will be attending.

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