Word: prepped
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Apart from unsafe wenching, Kennedy was not as reckless as the subtitle proclaims. He cut up a bit at prep school and wrote raunchy, callow letters ("Have jewed sled down to $3 and maybe down more"). But there was none of the wildness usually associated with offspring of rich, flamboyant families. Instead we find a likable boy with a cool head and an IQ of 119 who was more interested in good times than good grades. He was a competent sailor, played some football and swam competitively until stomach trouble, fevers and a puzzling weight loss curtailed his activities...
...Reagan was shaped by Hollywood and Bush influenced by the prep-school verities of his youth, then for Clinton the seminal moments probably came at Oxford and Yale. He was there during the early, heady days of one of the most influential social movements of his lifetime -- the birth of modern feminism. Hillary is part of that legacy; few men of an older political generation would feel comfortable with wives who earned far more than they did. Sometimes lost < amid the Hillary hype is a larger truth: Clinton, like many baby boomers, feels comfortable around intelligent women. Politics has always...
Brown also has a wildcard in freshman Ryan Mulhern, a classmate of Harvard's Tom Holmes at Canterbury last year. The Calgary Flame draft pick led the New England Prep School League in scoring last year...
What I cannot agree with is The Crimson's continued insistance on characterizing Eliot House as a bastion of aristocratic prep school students. The combined effect of new house masters and non-ordered choice have begun to diversify Eliot. Reinforcing dying stereotypes does no one any good...
Bush's quixotic program creates million of these imaginary dollars for his reelection gift bag and gives them to much-needed voters. While $1500 may help parents interested in parochial and special-interest schools, it won't make a significant difference to those considering prep schools and will undermine the community interest in public schools so vital to their survival...