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William H. Gates III, Harvard dropout and computer tycoon, has been named the wealthiest person in America by Forbes magazine...
...students complained of Perot's treatmentof his supporters at the time of his dropout inJuly...
...grew up in the racially mixed Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, messed around with drugs "the way everyone did then," and by her late teens was a high school dropout ("I just wasn't cut out for it") with a broken marriage and a baby daughter. Not long afterward she was living on welfare in San Diego. But her story can't be told that quickly. She looks on her childhood as privileged. Her mother, a nurse and a Head Start teacher, was a strong woman ("Still is. She's got her foibles, but she's amazing") who would...
...shortly after 11. Jimmy is driving around in a stolen 1987 Honda Prelude, a 9-mm TEC-9 under the seat. "I'm thinking, ohhh, man, this sain't for me. I'm just tired of this gang banging, and I'm, like, real scared." A semiliterate high school dropout, Jimmy grapples with the ghetto's version of a mid-life crisis. He drives around for 40 minutes, carefully obeying every traffic signal as he furiously works through his options. Definitely don't want to be stopped by the police, really don't want to fire this gun and sure...
...with the help of government subsidies and benefits, below the poverty line. Homelessness, derided by the communists as a plague of the West, is becoming commonplace. The old Soviet guarantees of work, housing and low fixed prices are gone, and the welfare net, designed to catch the rare social dropout, has sprung gaping holes...