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“Taking a step back, what are these rankings for? I guess they are for students trying to decide where to go to college,” said Zachary Bleemer, an economist at Princeton, who studies higher education.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
Forty years later, his son, Zachary, was a star basketball player at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
Panettiere was 17 when “Heroes” became a breakout hit and made her and co-stars Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka and Zachary Quinto sought-after talents.
From Salon ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Our catalyst works a bit differently because it actually just ejects the electron directly into solvent," says Zachary Wickens, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry who led the work.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
There was nothing white about Zachary Lincoln Taylor.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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