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...creating an alternate life for himself—complete with letters of recommendation that professors never wrote, SAT scores that he never earned, and schools he never attended—Wheeler bought himself two years at Harvard and tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, grants, and financial aid, prosecutors allege...
Best or worst lie you’ve ever told: At the beginning of the year, I told my third grade teacher to go easy on me in regards to spelling because they spell a lot of things differently in Jamaica. She bought it and never marked me down for spelling errors...
Worst part about Harvard: Um...I really don’t understand how it can be 1 degree outside. I bought a virtual DVD fireplace for my room to pretend I was warm...
...When we moved from New York to Florida in ’89, I bought them all little fiddlesticks, which is like a lacrosse stick that you can play with in your pool,” said Mr. Molinari, Jeff’s father. “Then when we moved [back to New York, we moved] to Manhasset because of lacrosse, and I kind of pushed them that way… and they actually went for it, and then we got the family all involved...
...season, Real, furious with its failure to compete with its archrival, spent an unheard of $345 million on six players—one of whom was Cristiano Ronaldo, the 2008 Fédération Internationale de Football Association World Player of the Year. With such talent bought at such an exorbitant price, Real expected good results right away...