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...Russell actually a victim? The N.A.A.C.P. and some of his teachers think so. His father John has filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, charging that Kenneth was unjustly punished for the fight. Although officials from the local Modesto school district ruled the scuffle "mutual," the white classmate received a three-day suspension while Russell was sent home for a little more than a month and later expelled from his school and assigned to one farther from where he lives. "It's been hard catching up with my work," says Kenneth. "I lost...
...unlike police who stop people on the basis of race, teachers and school officials discipline black students more often--and more harshly--than whites. The result: black students are more likely to slip behind in their studies and abandon school altogether--if they're not kicked out first. In Modesto, black students are 2 1/2 times as likely as their white peers to be expelled. This kind of treatment persists not only in the farm country of Modesto but also in urban districts like Minneapolis, Minn. During the 1998-99 school year, only one state (South Carolina) suspended...
...classical musician, took the arty road, making operatic, actor-centric films that sometimes (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) found large audiences. Lucas, who had written a third-grade theme that began, "Once upon a time in the land of Zoom..." and loved to tinker with cars, replayed his Modesto, Calif., adolescence in American Graffiti. Then he reworked the beloved comic books and B-movie serials of his youth into Star Wars, a film as stylized and sterile as a piece of abstract animation, yet an adventure potent enough to please mass audiences...
Closer to home, where a Democratically held seat is twisting in the wind, the reaction was bleaker. Roberta Elstad, a retired Postal Service computer operator in Modesto, Calif., concluded, "It's over. I think he came out of this in worse shape than he went into it." Said Carl Kelly, a Modesto steelworker: "Let me put it to you this way: I didn't believe him before. I don't believe him now. I believe he knows something, I just don't know exactly what...
...Instead, Levy was unceremoniously relieved of her duties in April when it was revealed she had completed her coursework more than three months earlier. Saddened but certainly not distraught by this turn of events, according to her family, Levy planned to return to Modesto in time for her May 11th commencement from the University of Southern California...