That's especially true as his friendship blossoms with his taciturn, totally crush-worthy classmate Ben.
We sat on my stoop between games and bitched about our teachers, trashed our less-worthy classmates and assessed the physical attributes of all the girls we knew, most of whom wanted nothing to do with us.
One of the Spotlight stories involved a complicated situation of abuse and relationship: Timothy Lambert, a New Jersey priest who had been abused, as a youth, by a priest who was perhaps the most important male figure in his life, who, Rezendes wrote in 2002, "convinced him that he was every bit as worthy as his classmates, despite his alcoholic father".
Remember the scene from Romy and Michele's High School Reunion where the girls were so desperate to be seen as worthy by former classmates, they lied and said they invented Post-it Notes?
We made bibimbap together at Korea House and snapped blackmail-worthy photos of a classmate dancing on stage with traditional Korean dancers.
In a nutshell, Araceli didn't understand why her daughter and her classmates weren't worthy of a small library.
Elizabeth received the 2012 Charles M. Rolker Prize, awarded annually to the member of the graduating Columbia College class who is judged by classmates to be most worthy of special distinction.
This prize is awarded to the member of the Columbia College graduating class who is judged by classmates to be most worthy of distinction for qualities of mind and character.
This prize is awarded to the member of the Columbia College graduating class who is judged by classmates to be most worthy of special distinction because of scholarship, participation in student activities or any combination thereof.
Ms. Gershow captures the awkward, cringe-worthy friendship between Lydia and David, a good-hearted but charmless classmate who shares her interest in parsing African politics and is as old-shoe familiar to Lydia as he is nerdy.
