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Let us not forget where the likes of Simon Greenburg honed his media 'skills'!

Still, our friends in the media will be having a field day over the coming few days following Tuesday night's result at the Library.

My views on this competition are well known (not the be-all and end-all as painted by some) but I do acknowledge that it has replaced the FA Cup as the knockout competition to win.

The massed ranks of the media will like nothing better than to have a white knight to pit against the dark forces operating in SW6.

For them the way in which the Arse play will be held up as a ray of light against the depressing gloom perpetrated by Chelsea.

Forgotten will be the mighty tussles against such formidable opposition as Sparta Prague and FC Thun in the (totally meaningless) group stage.

As will the nine defeats that the Arse have suffered in the Premier League so far this season - and the 28 points gap between them and the Premier League leaders.

No, all that will matter is that they have progressed to the last four (as they surely will now) of this vastly over-rated competition.

And in the last four you would certainly fancy them to see off either of Inter Milan or Villareal, so the final would then beckon.

And if they went on to beat Barcelona in the final, there would no doubt be calls from many for Wenger to be knighted (and I don't just mean from David Dein) conveniently overlooking the ...

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Around regional contest and state contest time, the members all agreed, there is pretty much one focus.

" 'Life' is a meaningless word to us," said Juhyung Sun, a junior.

"Especially with the word 'social' in front of it," added classmate Alicia Drapkin.

To win this year's state championship, the nine-member team had to become expert in everything Renaissance, from history to music and art, science, anatomy, social sciences, math and economics, Yetman said.

The team was awarded $4,100 for its victory at regionals, and each member from the state championship team was offered about $2,000 in renewable tuition waivers annually to Arizona State University or Northern Arizona University.

The winners got only hand-written congratulatory letters from the University of Arizona, they said.

Danielle Gifford, who works with horses, said she got more money from participating in the academic decathlon than from her job.

Team member, Dillon Foley, who competes in the "C" level of the competition (there are "A" and "B" levels as well) came away from the state contest with $1,600 to use for college, Yetman said.

Foley's 2.9 GPA could have caused him to not get any college scholarships, so it was a windfall.

Foley couldn't be happier.

"I hate homework," he said, explaining hi...

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