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Ourania N. Tserotas '98 attended a high school in inner-city Chicago where the dropout rate pushes 50 percent. Its students live mostly in public-housing projects; many had babies as sophomores or juniors in high school. Of the 10 percent who attend college, most go on to community colleges. Tserotas is the only graduate ever to matriculate at an Ivy League school...
That must be a tense, excit-place. Stupak, a high school dropout, landed in Las Vegas in 1972. He cruised along in the town's minor leagues with Vegas World until 1989, when the Sahara, just a block away, quadrupled the size of its sign and moved it closer to Stupak's casino, tempting his customers away. Stupak wanted the one-upman's revenge. The Eiffel Tower, Seattle's Space Needle, the towers in Tokyo and Sydney, Australia, were all profitmaking monuments, he noted. A similar structure--but bigger, of course--would be his answer to modern Vegas' edifice complex...
ARLEN SPECTER Latest G.O.P. dropout can't hang on past Richard Lugar--and that's got to hurt
...money, and with little visible support among prospective G.O.P. primary voters, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter suspended his campaign for the presidency. Specter, who had hoped to present himself as the moderate alternative to the party's conservative field of candidates, becomes the second G.O.P. presidential dropout, after California Governor Pete Wilson...
Reich's training schemes have received a cool response in various corners. According to an analysis in the conservative journal the Public Interest, it would have cost $214 billion in training just to restore the average male high school dropout's 1989 earnings to the level of 1979. Still, some economists see cause to give the idea a chance, if on a smaller scale. Germany, where real wages have been rising even at the bottom of the income ladder, spends three times as much for each worker on labor-market training as the U.S., according to Stephen Nickell at Oxford...