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When Katherine E. Jackson ’04 graduated from high school, a friend advised her to create a web page. “If people ask me what I did in high school,” she says, “I can just say ‘look at my website.’” Forty hours later, after many trials with a program called “Sitebuilder,” Kate launched her project last April. Its name? “Kate’s Website: The Realm of a Goddess...
...literary magazine,” she says, “written by a girl named Jessica Fritz-Jenkins. Yes, that’s right. This girl took my speech word-for-word off the Internet.” Fritz-Jenkins could not be reached for comment. This discovery inspired Jackson to search for her speech on the Web. To her dismay, it also appeared again on www.megaessays.com. This time it was for sale...
That may be true. But former Army JROTC cadet Kimberly Allen, 22, is not complaining, even though she admits that her experience at Jackson's Provine High School often felt like a dress rehearsal for a future in the military. Allen, a chemistry major in her junior year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, says JROTC's instructors often invited Army recruiters for meetings with cadets and encouraged them to fill out applications for the Army Reserves and National Guard. "I was really naive," Allen recalls. "I didn't think females or blacks were even allowed into West...
...stage to work the crowd into a bacchanalian frenzy. Pop stars perform throughout the night?and morning. Gay icons from Boy George to Gloria Gaynor have made an appearance in the past. Each year the identity of guest performers is kept secret, but this year speculation centers on Janet Jackson or Elton John showing...
...occupational hazard in hollywood: make a film based on real-life events and, predictably, you're going to have people grousing over inaccuracies. So it is with the latest crop of fact-based dramas. A bigger mystery: what Tolkien fans did before they had Peter Jackson's movie to pick apart...