Star professors palm their pupils off on graduate students and then give them top grades to keep them happy (one survey found that 91% of Harvard graduates get honours compared with just 51% at Yale).

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Later came intensive memorising of the star-compass, a circle of coral pebbles, each pebble a star, laid out in the sand round a palm-frond boat.

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At Palm Beach High School, he first made a name for himself as a football star and earned an athletic scholarship to Florida State University.

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Guests staying at Merv Griffin's 40-acre, 14-bedroom Palm Springs estate are encouraged to chat with the house staff, who worked with the star and love to share stories.

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This Five-Star resort is tucked away on seven oceanfront acres on the southern tip of Palm Beach Island, and the Ritz Kids AquaNuts facility is decidedly ocean-inspired the ceiling is blue and the room is decked out with fish nets, crab and fish rugs and has large murals of underwater scenes on the wall.

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On Palm Canyon Drive, the city's main thoroughfare, flowers are piled around a sidewalk star bearing Bono's name.

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