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...film ends, more or less, with a goofy caper that actually happened. Tobias was desperate to leave his stepfather and the high-school tough-guy character he had invented for himself. He sent off for some prep-school applications, persuaded a friend to steal high school transcript forms, wrote glowing reference letters and actually succeeded in being admitted to the prestigious Hill School in Pennsylvania. Years after he and his brother had got to know and love each other again, he admitted the scam to the somewhat more proper Geoffrey, who, profoundly shocked and sure he was seeing a reincarnation...
...common words begin with X's, and it's somehow endearing that you can buy candy in a xocolateria on your way to a sparkling wine bar--a xampanyeria--called Xampau Xampany. Moreover, a government-printed language textbook eachews the dry repetitions of "amo amas amat" that filled my high-school Latin primer and replaces them with two unclothed cartoon Catalans locked in a torrid embrace...
Hill hopes he can hit the ball well enough to catch the eyes of the major-league scouts. Like most kids, the three-sport high-school athlete grew up daydreaming of America's Pastime and would like nothing better than a chance to play his favorite sport for money...
Bush's real target these days, it seems, is history. Public opinion matters less to him than what high-school textbooks will say about him. Regardless of the policy failures of his presidency, Bush will return to his Houston hotel room a happy man if he can convince The World Almanac in his last three months not to say nasty things in their capsule review of his tenure...
Tonight, the Crimson will have a chance to iron out some of its offensive kinks in its scrimmage against Assabet, a Massachusetts all-select squad primarily consisting of high-school level talent...