Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...much of a rapper--do a Nexis search and you will not find the adjective Tupac Shakurish used to describe his bland hip-hop work--but in Hollywood these days, he is giving off heat. Wahlberg's performance in The Basketball Diaries (1995) as a drug-addled Catholic school dropout, opposite the De Niro of his generation, Leonardo DiCaprio, was surprisingly well received. Just last week he had dinner with the actual Robert De Niro to talk about a boxing film the two plan to star in called Out on My Feet. And Wahlberg is already drawing serious critical attention...
...owes it all to beer. Klein, 37, is a law student turned securities expert who had his '90s-dropout experience when he fell for two things: a Dutch woman who became his wife and a spicy Dutch brew called witbier (wheat beer), which became his first start-up. The Spring Street Brewing Co. was born in January 1993, and its growth-fueled cash crunch gave Klein his big vision of offering stock to his customers via the Internet...
...said, 'What are you talking about?' He said he couldn't believe it either." While her father and mother have always been supportive of her career choice, "I definitely got the vibe that other things were more stable," Sydney says. The movie, in which she plays a high school dropout trying to turn her life around, wrapped last week. She has no new work lined up, but she's optimistic. After all, her dad probably still has a copy of that tape. If that doesn't bring new offers, "the record company said I could always come back...
...stray bullets don't--these are familiar stories to District dwellers. A recent expose in the Washington Post offered jaw-dropping statistics on the amount of wasted funds and government bloat. Washington spends more money and has more employees than any other city. Yet the high school dropout rate has passed 50%, crime is up 16% since 1991, and tuberculosis and infant-mortality rates are the highest in the nation. Just last week officials announced that the city's public schools would open three weeks late this fall because building repairs haven't been finished...
Maybe. What is certainly true is that the services are under increasing pressure to stem a high dropout rate among trainees. One way to do that is to make basic training easier for everyone to complete. The number of recruits who wash out after fewer than six months--which is how long it takes most members of the service to complete basic plus some advanced training--has climbed by a third over the past decade. "What we're ending up with is a kinder, gentler drill sergeant who is trying to keep attrition down," says Charles Moskos, a leading military...