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2007 Atlas Shrugged Contest Winners

First Place

John DeWald, University College London, London, United Kingdom
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Second Place

Garrett Gates, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME Ben O'Neill, Australian National University, Acton, ACT, Australia Christian Tarsney, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

Third Place

Justin Hack, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Tzipora Henig, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Ramat-G, Israel
Margaret Kirkland, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Brian St. Clair, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA
Lisa Wang, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Finalists

Michael Aikins, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Charles Arnone, The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, TX
Walker Asserson, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Gil Bento, Brookdale, County College of Monmouth, Lincroft, NJ
Andrew Buchwach, DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Nicole Ciandella, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Darryl DeWeese, USC, Los Angeles, CA
David Gilmour, Berea College, Berea, KY
Jonathan Giuffrida, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Joe Goodwill, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa
Megan Henricks, Denison University, Granville, OH
Daniel Klayton, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Ryan Krause, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Matthew Lee, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Summer Lindsey, Columbia University, New York, NY
Colin McLafferty, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Julianna Parlock, Purdue University Calumet, Hammond, IN
Matthew Parry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Melinda Ricketts, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Nicole Vance, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Semi-Finalists

Drake Ballew, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Vanea Bell, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Samantha Blasbalg, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Ethan Blevins, Brigham Young University Idaho, Rexburg, ID
Nathan Brandon, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA
Brian Embry, University of Houston, Houston, TX
Eugenia Fuchs, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sarah Gregory, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, NY
Ian Kryshak, University of the Arts - Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Cadmus Kyrala, University Of Birmingham-CELS, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Randy Millard, Durham Business School, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Bobby Ryan Newberry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Kira Newman, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
LaVan Overfield, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN
Julie Schwartzwald, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Robert Smith, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Pamela Stacey, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Lana Tong, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Ann Wang, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Rebecca Yeager, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany, IN