Junior's life had been a disappointment to him.
Still, the indispensable intellectual as well as social influence in Junior's life was obviously Arthur Senior, a path-breaking historian whose fame long preceded Junior's.
"His constant goal in life," junior assisting counsel Sophie Callan summed up, "appears to have been achieving significance".
I think often about this junior diplomat whose life intersected with mine for just a few minutes nearly seven years ago.
On Sunday in Oceanside, Calif., Junior Seau's life was celebrated with a public paddle-out, a gathering at an ocean spot where Seau enjoyed surfing.
In a part of the world where the N.H.L. is a staple of life, junior and minor league hockey could become somewhat of a haven for Vancouver's hockey-passionate fan base.
Her memories of Jackson -- of the leprechauns that haunted the woods or the year desegregation uprooted her junior high school life -- almost invariably circle back to her mother or grandmother.
Yet there was another part of this resilient teenager, a part that remained very much alive, that helped Kaschik, now 22 and a University of Southern California junior, rebuild a life that had been lost.
"U.C.B. is part high school, part rehab, part training camp, part substitute family, part junior college for life," Amy Poehler says, in "High Status Characters," an oral history of the group.
IT'S a warm June day in Capitola, Calif., a little coastal town just south of Santa Cruz, and the beach is teeming with life: junior lifeguards in red swimsuits going through their training exercises, mothers watching their toddlers at work in the sand with shovels and pails, teenage girls stretched out on blankets trying to capture the first rays of the summer sun.
