school
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He was born Nigel Neill, but told interviewers he started to go by Sam because there were too many Nigels at his school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
WSJ: As an ACC school, Louisville certainly doesn’t have equivalent resources, as the table stakes for being competitive escalates, to Big Ten or SEC schools, whose conferences are billion-dollar businesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
A brief attempt at a career in the legal profession was cut short after he failed his first year at law school.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
A former altar boy, he grew up as one of seven children in Nairobi informal settlements, and his parents scraped together enough to send him to school and university, where he studied criminology.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
One morning in December 1941, Father Monaghan and other faculty members open the school for a planned exhibition.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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