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  • Exposed, the 'weekend warrior' who was no hero

    04/09/2006 7:49:23 AM PDT · by managusta · 30 replies · 1,259+ views
    The Daily Telegraph ^ | 09/04/2006 | Andrew Thomas
    The leafy, serene university campus of the all-women Meredith College seems as far removed from the war zone of Iraq as it is possible to get. Yet for almost three years, one student apparently was a part of these two very different worlds. Lisa Jane Phillips was not just a prize-winning honours student. She was also a captain and heroic United States Air Force pilot. In her honour, the college waived $42,178 (£24,000) of tuition fees and invited her into tutorials to talk to other students about "what it's really like over there". There was a prize for her "interest...
  • School named after Johnnie Cochran

    01/27/2006 2:13:31 PM PST · by zaxxon · 51 replies · 763+ views
    CNN.com/Reuters ^ | January 26, 2006 | na
    Los Angeles has renamed a public school after Johnnie Cochran, the late criminal defense lawyer who helped clear "Trial of the Century" murder defendant O.J. Simpson. School district officials voted unanimously for the name change Tuesday, saying Cochran, who attended the former Mt. Vernon Middle School as a boy, was an "extraordinary, superb lawyer with movie-star celebrity status." But the sister of Simpson's ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, whom the former star football player and actor was charged with stabbing and slashing to death, said she was stunned by the move. "It's in bad taste," Denise Brown told Reuters. "Yeah, he...