A shining night for the best and brightest
It wasn't enough for Jessica Idiculla to be at the top of her class. Or to be a soccer coach, dance teacher and chemistry and biology tutor. Jessica, a senior at Cooper City High, also spent hundreds...
View ArticleThe amazing achievers: Fifteen standout students won Silver Knights for work...
Daniel Lage helps poor patients figure out their healthcare options at a Little Havana clinic, and he has authored a medical-journal article about children's heart disease. Soon, he'll graduate from...
View ArticleSilver Knight success stories: Where are they now?
For 49 years, the Silver Knight Awards Program has honored extraordinary high school seniors who are classroom and community standouts. Where are they now?
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Math wiz's job is out of this world
Rocket scientist Mark Adler was the lead mission engineer for the Cassini mission to Saturn. And he's the guy who made sure the Mars rover didn't drive off a cliff.
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Miami artist's work hangs at Governor's Mansion
TALLAHASSEE -- The staid and somewhat old Governor's Mansion has a little Picasso-like flavor now that two new paintings from Miami artist Xavier Cortada are hanging in the entrance hall in honor of...
View ArticleThe art of wine: A Miami Beach collector's passions combine in a line of wines
If wine and art come together at all in most people's minds, it's probably in the plastic cups of cheap chardonnay poured at gallery openings. For Dennis Scholl, however, they are a sublime pairing...
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Margate to Manhattan: Daniel Bernard Roumain's unique style blends classical,...
When he was growing up in Margate, Daniel Bernard Roumain, 36, did two things obsessively: He practiced his violin and he listened to his family's stories about life in their native Haiti. "I absorbed...
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Sticking up for the disabled
Paula Rubin is an attorney with the civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she works on behalf of people with disabilities. ''There is no amount of money and no corner office...
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CNN attorney gives power to those without voices
Johnita Due, daughter of civil rights activists John Due and Patricia Stephens Due, has come full circle. A Silver Knight award winner in journalism, she is now making sure the voices of people who...
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For lawyer, life is a debate
Long before he argued in front of the Supreme Court or wrote speeches for the vice president or went to Harvard (magna cum laude, national debating champion) and Harvard Law (cum laude, Law Review),...
View ArticleHaitian teen driven to achieve -- and help others along
While corraling errant shopping carts in the parking lot of a West Little River grocery store, Estanley Baptiste dreams of Harvard.<p/> He works the late shift every night but Thursday, helping...
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