One supposes it's difficult for a 17-year-old to take business trips while keeping up a 4.0 average at Solomon Schechter School, playing point guard on the basketball team and laying out the school yearbook.

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At West Point the origins of the cheating scandal were traced to a small group of football players, and at Harvard the most noteworthy early withdrawals from the school are those of the senior co-captains on the basketball team, which in recent years has been faced with troubling questions about its players and coach.

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Paulus, national player of the year in high school as a quarterback for Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse and also a star on the basketball team, opted to play point guard at Duke for coach Mike Krzyzewski and after receiving his undergraduate degree enrolled at Syracuse as a graduate student for his final year of eligibility.

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He went on to quarterback his high school football team and was captain of the baseball and basketball teams.

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