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Kilson cited Princeton as a university "where academic performance is poor among blacks and the freshman dropout rate is an astronomical 32 per cent...
Brooks may have known Corll as far back as 1960, when Brooks was only five years old; he had lived with Corll intermittently during the past three years. Henley, a junior high school dropout from a broken home, had met Corll several years ago when Corll was managing a Houston candy store. Corll would give candy to young boys and offer them rides on his motorcycle. Henley's mother recalls that on occasion Corll would drive over in a white van with a black couch in the back and gather in ten or twelve youths for a ride...
...earnest and "went from being a straight A student to a straight C." As a freshman at Ohio State he caddied for Upperclassman Jack Nicklaus, then the young master of amateur golf. Impressed by Nicklaus' exploits, Weiskopf quit after his sophomore year to become a "successful college dropout...
...remedy is as drastic as his charges: he assists families in abducting the young believers, many of them over 21, from the religious groups they have joined, and then conducts a kind of brainwashing of his own-"deprogramming" them, as he calls it. He is a high school dropout with no psychological credentials; yet he has won the trust of enough parents to have conducted, he claims, 139 successful deprogrammings and to have inspired some 550 others during more than two years of crusading. In Manhattan last week, he faced the judgment of a criminal court for the first time...
Politics is almost unnaturally clean?no patronage, virtually no corruption. The citizens are well educated; the high school dropout rate, 7.6%, is the nation's lowest. Minnesotans are remarkably civil; their crime rate is the third lowest in the nation (after Iowa and Maine). By a combination of political and cultural tradition, geography and sheer luck, Minnesota nurtures an extraordinarily successful society...