When I was in Tehran last December, I called on Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, who had been the student ringleader of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis.
The cast also includes Joan Chen as the grasping, gossipy Mrs. Yee, and Wang Lee-hom, the American-born Asian pop star, as the student ringleader.
When Mr Arafat ordered his security forces to round up the student ringleaders, other universities took to the streets.
Some journalists tried to expose student "ringleaders" posting messages on blogs; largely, they got it wrong, for while politically active, few, if any of the writers, were encouraging people to be violent.
He was charged with endangering national security and prevented from seeing his lawyer during the first 40 days of his interrogation.Next month will be the anniversary of last summer's pro-democracy student protests which led to days of street violence in Tehran, and the imprisonment of student ringleaders.
The ringleader, Trenda Halton, a student who pleaded guilty last year, worked with several accomplices who recruited "straw students" to apply for Pell grants and loans.
The school, Mount St. Gabriel's, is led by the indomitable Mother Ravenel, herself once a student there, when she was the ringleader of a secretive clique of girls, the "oblates of the Red Nun".
Police confirmed the attack, which took place weeks after the ringleader harassed the black student for having dated a white girl.
But Mr. Schily said it was unclear whether more Al Qaeda members remained on the loose in Germany, where some of the 19 hijackers had been students, including Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader.
It's just that, to borrow from Dershowitz's language to his students, they were better at being the ringleader of the media circus.
Mexico's federal government subsequently arrested a suspected ringleader of the attacks on the students in Iguala, and has sought to discredit the claims of skeptics over the level of knowledge and possible participation by federal forces on the violent night of Sept. 26, 2014.
