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After a bunch of choir stuff, principal Fred Dreier gave a speech. I heard phrases like "lived through Hiroshima," "suffered a stroke" and "Jesus Christ, Buddha and Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Drop-In | 7/9/2001 | See Source »

...After a bunch of choir stuff, principal Fred Dreier gave a speech. I heard phrases like "lived through Hiroshima," "suffered a stroke" and "Jesus Christ, Buddha and Thomas Jefferson," the last of which, sadly, was not the setup to a joke. I am not sure what his speech was about since I was busy crossing out paragraphs from my speech. Then the ESPN guy talked about a "mentally challenged" kid in his high school who had taught him something about something. Again I was busy crossing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Drop-In | 7/1/2001 | See Source »

...After Principal Dreier whisked me out of the auditorium and toward my car as if I was Nixon in Venezuela, I was racked by images of being a dirty old man and hearing a woman I was sleeping with say, "I think you spoke at my high school graduation." I saw this happening in about two hours, after a light lunch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High School Drop-In | 7/1/2001 | See Source »

...Dreier changed his mind about the role of immigrants in this country? Absolutely not. He sees no contradiction--indeed no relationship at all--between his immigration positions and his effort to increase visas for high-tech guest workers. "It's a skilled-workforce bill, not an immigration bill," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Tech vs. Low Tech: Send Me Your Wired | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

Until recently, Dreier and his fellow Republicans had managed to separate the two issues. Cash-rich, labor-hungry Silicon Valley companies have been pushing Congress to make it easier to import programmers and engineers rapidly. To satisfy the Valley, Congress wants to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for the second time in two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Tech vs. Low Tech: Send Me Your Wired | 6/26/2000 | See Source »

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