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...pizzeria last August. He is Daoud Abu Sway, 47, a father of eight not known to be unusually political or religious, who detonated a bomb outside a luxury hotel in Jerusalem in December, killing himself and injuring two others. He is even a she. Ayat Akhras, 18, was a straight-A student, just months away from graduation and then marriage. On March 29, she killed herself and two others outside a Jerusalem supermarket. Volunteers such as these are coming forward faster than militant leaders can strap an explosive belt around their waist and send them off to kill...
Besides, if it’s worldly success that concerns you, grades are vastly less important than hard work, connections and the art of self-promotion. The world is full of straight-A students managing money for guys like the Bazooka...
...rebellion and a brilliant metaphor for the trajectory of our lives, concerns three childhood friends in Georgia who have followed different paths since being in high school. Kit (Zoe Saldana) took the tempting cheerleading, Mimi (Taryn Manning) is naturally the opposite (big loser) and Lucy (Britney Spears) is the straight-A valedictorian with exorbitantly large breasts. Obviously, these restless young ladies need a cross-country road trip for a dose of self-discovery to ease that angst. Think Thelma & Louise plus Friend and Hot Guy set to “Not a Girl” and “Stronger?...
...virtually unknown in the U.S. but Americans are starting to find out what her Japanese fans already recognize: that Utada, 18, is one of the best and brightest young pop stars in the world. The Japanese media, of course, routinely sing her praises: "BILINGUAL STRAIGHT-A STUDENT" and "THE DIVA OF THE HEISEI PERIOD!" And the Japanese public devours her music: her debut CD, First Love (1999), sold more than 9.5 million copies, making it the best-selling album in Japanese history. Her latest CD, Distance, has also become a huge hit, with fans buying more than 3 million copies...
...Potter. She went to Hong Kong's Diocesan Girls' School, a hoity-toity institution for little ladies in the making. Classmate and designer Johanna Ho, who schooled with Mok before going on to London to study with Stella McCartney, remembers Mok the modest: "She always wore glasses, was a straight-A student, had short hair and braces." Mok's happy to admit she was a nerd, an academic junkie. She won a scholarship to study Italian literature in Trieste and followed it with three years at the University of London. There she met Hong Kong music student Mark...