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...bedroom Harlem apartment that she shared with her mother, four brothers, one cousin and a pregnant aunt who was 14. All of them were supported by welfare checks, a background that might have put Mims in line for early pregnancy, an education cut off in the ninth grade or so and a long stretch on public support. Instead, she is married today and looking forward to starting a family -- after she finishes her degree program at Manhattan's Hunter College. Even she sounds surprised by it all. "I didn't think I'd make it out of high school...
Heller will be ninth in a line of rabbis that stretches back to the famous early 17th century Mishnah commentator Yom-Tov Lippman Heller. After first setting hands on a computer in second grade, however, Heller always assumed he'd be a mathematician or do something with computers. By fifth grade, he was proficient enough that an older student paid him to hack into a strip poker software program...
...into the spring campaign Harvard had proved it could complete successfully on a regional and national level. The Crimson won the fall ECAC Team Championships, soundly defeating four rivals en route to the title, and raised more than a few eyebrows when it defeated fifteenth-ranked Texas Christian and ninth-ranked Louisiana State at the national indoor championships this spring...
While attending the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., from ninth through 12th grade as a boarder, Hajek excelled in field hockey--for which Harvard recruited...
...team marched into the Heptagonals at Columbia and got trounced, finishing a distant ninth behind first-place Brown and five other teams that the Crimson had beaten in the winter...