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...Hialeah High School isn’t exactly the kind of place that draws a large contingent of celebrity kids, but Harvard is the kind of place that can turn kids into celebrities. After four members of its 2002 graduating class—Javier Castellanos ’06, Medardo M. Martin ’06, Eileen Matias ’06, and Vanessa Mendez ’06—were all accepted by Harvard, the Miami Herald ran a front-page feature story with the headline, “Four Students From One School Beat Long Odds, Join...
Mendez, who is also pre-med, explains that the science program at Hialeah isn’t as strong as at other schools and didn’t prepare her as well as she would have liked. “We have voiced that, and they’re trying to change it,” she says. Martin recognizes that he is in a unique position with regard to his high school peers. “I feel more of an obligation,” he says. “Not so much as a role model?...
Taliban fanatics need martyrs and victims the way cars need gasoline. The war in Afghanistan will create more Islamic extremists so the U.S. and its Muslim allies like Pakistan will be in even more danger. SANTIAGO CARDENAS JR. Hialeah...
...awry. He has now turned up on TV as an election-law expert for the Gore campaign. A former Miami-Dade commissioner has sought "refugee" status in Australia, following accusations that he partied with a hooker at a Biscayne Boulevard crack house. A few months ago, the mayor of Hialeah Gardens was convicted of soliciting to murder her ex-husband. The first place she went looking for hit men: city hall. Our tolerance for such controversial characters is epitomized by the welcome given O.J. Simpson, who moved here for the golf. Autograph seekers follow him down the fairways...
...this drama. There are no heroes in the sad, pathetic tale--just human beings, some making terrible mistakes and others being guilty of meanspirited obsession. But the whole affair has been about personal behavior. And wrong though it may be, it is still something strictly personal. A. ALICIA ALEXANDER Hialeah...