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  • Second thoughts on not being first (Blair Horstine)

    08/21/2003 8:34:20 AM PDT · by schaketo · 6 replies · 154+ views
    Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | August 21, 2003 | Monica Yant Kinney
    So the big winner wound up losing. What a pathetic, predictable end to the Blair Hornstine saga. I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that suing the school district for $2.7 million and settling for a mere $60,000 means she suffered a fate far worse than being co-valedictorian. Especially because most of the dough will go to the lawyers. Blair's measly cut - $15,000 - won't even buy her a semester at Harvard. Not that she could use it there, because Harvard rejected her, too. Talk about a summer of discontent. First, Blair filed - and won - a...