1.   A long-simmering debate over the merits of the School of the Americas, an elite U.S. Army academy at Fort Benning, has boiled over.

2.   Several elite academies here were founded more than a century ago by missionaries, as well as by other settlers or Hawaiian royalty.

3.   The French model begins with a few elite training academies and a trio of Parisian high schools.

4.   President George W. Bush told graduates from an elite military academy Saturday that they must protect and preserve American freedom at a time when terrorism puts it in jeopardy.

5.   A trained engineer who served in the French artillery during World War I, Borotra graduated from the elite French engineering academy, the Polytechnique.

6.   The TNT plant is on Etajima island in Hiroshima Bay which also houses an elite Japanese naval academy and facilities operated by the Maritime Self-Defence Forces.