And by senior year, when I began to challenge the liberal orthodoxy that many Hispanics worship, I got a taste of my own medicine.
My three fellow ninth graders and I certainly found no better way to while away winter Saturdays (the Pepsi Cola bottles gave way to Michelob by senior year, but we were still playing).
By his senior year, Clementi had stopped considering a music degree.
By his senior year, he was ranked as the second best High School basketball player in the USA. Some kid named LeBron James was number one.
But by junior and senior year, most students tend to fall in line with that decades-old tradition: the on-campus job search.
Projects are reviewed at least once a year by senior management and must clear various technical and financial hurdles to receive another year of funding.
On the wider front, Barack Obama endorsed the call last year by four senior former US diplomats (including Henry Kissinger) for the US to aim for a nuclear weapons-free world, as it is supposed to be under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The report, written last year by a senior officer at West Yorkshire Police, says that Ch Insp Riordan behaved as if he was "hell bent on cornering his quarry", that his attention had become "focused unhealthily" on Mr Watson and that this had the effect of "clouding his judgement".
This is a guest post by Jack Turnage, who will begin his senior year at Kent Denver School, in Denver, this fall.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is scheduled to hold a high-level dialogue with the Democratic Party and Republican Party in the United States by the end of this year, a senior CPC official has said.
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The ruling, on October 26 last year, overturned a decision by seven senior Scottish judges.
In 2003 the number of comments written by leaders in the margins of Reference Proofs, a secret bulletin on international affairs for very senior officials rose by 88% compared with the year before.
In one study involving African-American and white college freshmen in a predominantly white university, the intervention, delivered in the first year of college, changed the trajectory of minority students' achievement by steadily improving their grades all the way through senior year.
However, although Kewell will be a hot favourite for the young player award, Manchester United skipper Roy Keane and Sunderland sharp-shooter Kevin Phillips seem set to battle it out for the senior award which was won last year by David Ginola.
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The BBC learned earlier this year that a new guidebook, drawn up by eight senior officers, could be used by police forces across the country.
The toy was thrust into the political spotlight during last year during a highly publicized gaffe by Mitt Romney's senior campaign adviser, who compared his candidate's positions to an Etch A Sketch.
But if there were no pledge, would we really choose to instill patriotism and knowledge of the U.S. system by requiring students to repeat the same 31 words daily from kindergarten through senior year?
Mr Jordan was one of four senior Sussex officers to be investigated by Hampshire Police over the raid in January last year.
Early this year, in an apparent bid to dampen speculation that the war in Iraq had diverted America from the war on terror, and without laying claim to any fresh intelligence, senior American officials in Afghanistan vowed to have Osama bin Laden behind bars by the year's end.
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The 30-year-old one-time Liverpool youth has had his career, which has spanned nine senior clubs, blighted by injury but is mulling over an offer of a one-year deal to make his debut in Scotland's top flight.
The two-year study was carried out by a panel including drugs experts, police officers and senior lawyers.
It was no less than the Germans deserved for a display full of attacking panache, led by the outstanding Robben, with 22-year-old goalkeeper Kraft imperious on his ninth senior match for the club.
Plus, notes Pascal Aguirre, senior vice president at Adventis consultants, Covad has expanded its business by a shrewd purchase earlier this year of GoBeam, a seller of cheap phone connections over the Net.
According to White House officials, a group including Vice-President Biden and David Axelrod, a senior adviser, and led by Summers was hesitant to make a major push on health care this year, especially given the fact that a full plan would cost roughly a trillion dollars over ten years.
From 1998 to 2010, the median senior reduced his savings in U.S. savings bonds by an average of over 11 percent per year, but increased his savings in stocks and mutual funds by almost 8 percent per year.
That year foreign journalists were barred from any meeting taking place next to a room being visited by a senior leader.
There were also statements attributed to senior Israelis and Americans suggesting that the window for military action could close within a year, because by then Iran might already have developed a bomb, or improved its air defences sufficiently to deter any attack.
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