It got Angle into graduate school and helped his professor get tenure.

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And although she suffered from dyslexia, her stellar grades got her into graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, where she worked with Blackburn.

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Instead of going to graduate school, Kabban got a job with Catholic Charities, helping refugees settle into their new lives.

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