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...Blanton was a 25-year-old 10th-grade dropout working in a stockroom. Bobby Frank Cherry was 33 years old with only eight years of school; he was missing all his upper teeth and had already fathered seven children. Both men had been in the Klan but found it too restrained for their liking. So, along with a few others, they formed the Cahaba Boys, who met beneath the Cahaba River bridge on U.S. 280 to drink beer and talk about saving the South from Jews, Catholics and blacks...
...significant portion of students fail, the dropout rate will skyrocket, and it will be disproportionately students from poorer districts who need a solid secondary education the most. Many students who come to school, pass their classes and fulfill graduation requirements will leave without a diploma, which is a prerequisite to advancement in today's technology-driven economy. There must be some less painful way to improve educational standards in Massachusetts...
...which have flourished because of their immense selection of songs and tech expertise that old-media record labels can't match. Now even bigger threats are coming from the second generation of MP3 sites, like the 10-month-old Napster.com founded by Shawn Fanning, a 19-year-old college dropout. (See following story.) "You're going to see 1 million artists and 500,000 music labels on the Internet by 2002," says rapper Chuck D, who has also founded two music websites, Slamjams.com and Rapstation.com
What, then, was the precise objection to having an extremely successful Harvard dropout emcee an extremely popular Harvard event? Was it that he didn't have the requisite knowledge of and appreciation for the rich explosions of culture over which he presided? That can't be right because one doubts that Jennifer Lopez or Antonio Banderas--other emcee possibilities considered--knew much more than he did about the minutae of Vietnamese cuisine or the intricacies of traditional African dance...
Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) makes money the old-fashioned way: he has turned his college-dropout pad into a mini-casino, where he deals blackjack. It's a nice living, but not a lifestyle that offers much in the way of parental bragging rights. This is a matter of some moment to Seth's sour father (Ron Rifkin), a federal judge who has sentenced his son to life in the doghouse for his slacker ways...