OPINION:
Noble: 15-year-old Jennifer Sharpe of Dearborn, Mich., the Girl Scout who sold 17,328 boxes of cookies, setting what is believed to be a new national record.
Samoas, Do-Si-Dos and Trefoils: In total, Jennifer sold about $21,000 worth of these and other classic Girl Scout treats. New York-based Girl Scouts of the USA doesn’t track the numbers nationally, but no rivals to Jennifer’s sales are known. At minimum, the young Michigander outstrips all other scouts this year, according to the Girl Scouts’ two cookie suppliers.
How did she do it? If you were to guess a flashy Web site, you’d be wrong. Jennifer sold these cookies the old-fashioned way: On a street corner every day of Girl Scout cookie-selling season. Her mother and troop leader, Pam Sharpe, helped. Jennifer’s troop plans to use the money to fund a trip to Europe.
For showing that, sometimes, elbow grease and persistence are all it takes to succeed, Girl Scout Jennifer Sharpe is the Noble of the Week.
Knave: The Philadelphia taxi passenger who bit off part of a cabbie’s ear during a robbery.As the Philadelphia Daily News reports the gruesome story, the assailant requested to be taken to a “small street” before demanding money from driver William Milburn. When Mr. Millburn refused, the suspect reportedly climbed through the partially open driver’s-side window before biting Mr. Milburn’s ear and kicking the driver out of his own cab. The assailant was in possession of a knife, police say, but chose not to use it. He fled on foot, but police later nabbed him and recovered $183.
The lost lobe of the driver’s ear was located, but doctors were unable to reattach it. A suspect, Kenneth Williams, is charged with robbery, aggravated assault, simple assault, possessing instruments of a crime, recklessly endangering another person, theft and terroristic threats.
For a gruesome assault on a taxi driver just trying to do his job, Kenneth Williams is the Knave of the Week.
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