Smith scored 28 points in a bittersweet homecoming, carrying the fourth-ranked Cardinals into the Big East tournament semifinals with a 74-55 victory over Villanova only hours after the death of his esteemed high school coach.

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Russ Smith scored 28 points in a bittersweet homecoming, leading No. 4 Louisville into the Big East tournament semifinals with a 74-55 victory over the Wildcats on Thursday night only hours after the death of his esteemed high school coach.

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Early in his scribbling career, Croesus was fortunate to have been taken up by one esteemed Harvard Business School professor Georges Doriot, a wise Frenchman who taught a course on manufacturing, not financial engineering, and so influenced generations of Harvard M.

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Paige, a 2010 graduate of Wagner College, a school with an esteemed service-learning program, was inspired by social innovation and the idea of AltruHelp using social technology to amplify volunteerism.

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Vijay Govindarajan, a professor at the Tuck business school at Dartmouth and highly esteemed management consultant made much the same point in an interview I did with him for Forbes video.

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