BUSH GIVES MOORPARK TEAM ROYAL TOUR.Byline: Lisa Friedman Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - There was one thing President George W. Bush really wanted to know Tuesday from members of Moorpark High School's national championship Academic Decathlon decathlon (dĭkăth`lŏn), in modern Olympic games, a contest for men held over two days and composed of 10 track-and-field events. team. Did they stomp their rivals from Texas? ``We told him we did,'' said a grinning Nathaniel Jones For the judge who sits on the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, see . Nathaniel Jones died in December 2003 after assaulting Cincinnati police and resisting their attempts to arrest him outside a White Castle hamburger shop in Cincinnati, Ohio. , 18, captain of the Ventura County high school team that won the national title against 37 other schools across the country. The nine-student team, along with its coach and a handful of parent chaperons, spent about 30 minutes meeting with Bush in the Oval Office and touring the Rose Garden. The meeting was closed to reporters, but students said Bush took them to the magnolia Magnolia, city, United States Magnolia (măgnō`lyə), city (1990 pop. 11,151), seat of Columbia co., SW Ark.; inc. 1855. Its oil industry has been important since 1938. tree that President Andrew Jackson planted for his wife in 1835 and showed off one he had recently planted. In the Oval Office, they said, he gave them a tour of Texas paintings and described the symbolism Symbolism In art, a loosely organized movement that flourished in the 1880s and '90s and was closely related to the Symbolist movement in literature. In reaction against both Realism and Impressionism, Symbolist painters stressed art's subjective, symbolic, and decorative of the rug Laura Bush installed - complete with ``Lone Star'' stitching along the border - when the couple redecorated the White House. ``He's a hard-core Texan. You can tell. It runs in his veins,'' 18-year-old Ashlee Scott said. Scott, who described her own politics as ``more on the liberal side'' than Bush's, said her ideological differences won't stop her and teammate Lindsey Hebert, also 18, from posting a photo of their meeting with the president when they room together next year at the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . The duo said they plan to hang it alongside photos they took with Gov. Gray Davis and a statue “Statues” redirects here. For other uses, see Statues (disambiguation). A statue is a sculpture depicting a specific entity, usually a person, event, animal or object. Its primary concern is representational. A small statue is called statuette. of Jesus. ``Now we've got Davis, we've got Jesus and George Bush,'' Hebert said, adding, ``I just want to meet Hillary (Clinton).'' In preparing for the Academic Decathlon, the Moorpark students studied an average of 40 hours a week for nine months, giving up weekends, vacations and part-time jobs. They competed in art, economics, language, literature, math, music and social science - ultimately scoring 51,423 out of a possible 60,000 points. They took home a total of 31 gold, silver and bronze medals - some of which students wore for their presidential meeting. ``It was just real impressive,'' coach Larry Jones Larry Jones is also the real name of Atlanta Braves player Chipper Jones. Walter "Larry" Jones (born September 22, 1942 in Columbus, Ohio) is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the NBA and ABA, from 1964 to 1974. said. ``He (Bush) really took time to talk to the students, to joke and tease tease (tez) to pull apart gently with fine needles to permit microscopic examination. tease v. with us.'' Larry Jones took a Moorpark national championship team to the White House a few years ago, but he said that the meeting with President Clinton was cut short because of a state function. ``This was just real personal,'' said Jones, Nathaniel's father. Lisa Friedman, (202) 662-8731 lisa.friedman(at)langnews.com |
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