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Even if the club queen decided to admit men, The Bee would still be elitist. Admitting people to an organization on the basis of their lineage, prep school, bank account, sports team affiliation or amount of hair spray used is lame and unacceptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Buzz Off | 12/17/1991 | See Source »

...this seems like an election-eve conversion, it should. The President doesn't really like much about California except its trove of 54 electoral votes, 20% of the total he needs to win a second term. His weird Tex-prep political roots have always put him culturally closer to Barbara Mandrell than to Michelle Pfeiffer. As an Administration official explained, "I don't think Bush has ever had an affinity for the place. He finds the culture rather alien." In his autobiography, Bush mournfully recalled the late 1940s when he worked as a traveling drill-bit salesman in California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California Schemin' | 11/18/1991 | See Source »

Ever since his senior year at Fairfield Prep in Trumbull, Conn., Drury has basked in the glory of being one of the top amateur hockey players in the nation...

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: On the Road to Albertville With Harvard's Ted Drury | 11/13/1991 | See Source »

Center stage in his prep room is one of his more interesting "toys." The structure looks like, well, a giant bird cage with a chair for a professor in it. Electrical current is run through the ungrounded cage. Sparks flying, the professor, unharmed, is able to lecture from within. Sound like...

Author: By Douglas M. Kaden, | Title: The Man Behind the Scenes At the Science Center | 11/9/1991 | See Source »

Rueckner's Prep Room is overflowing with electrical cords, video equipment, desks and 52 gallon drums, among other things...

Author: By Douglas M. Kaden, | Title: The Man Behind the Scenes At the Science Center | 11/9/1991 | See Source »

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