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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Think that's bad? By far the biggest surprise at my high school that campaign season was Jennifer Reid. She was a smart, friendly, pretty and very popular senior who was later voted "Most Likely to Succeed." And she was a Republican. No one believed the rumors at first--Republicans were white boys from the suburbs, rich kids who only came to the inner cities to buy drugs. How could anyone as cool as Jenny be a Republican? Finally, someone got up the nerve to ask her. The awful truth was out. There was a Republican in our midst...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, | Title: We Won! We Won! Now What? | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...experience at Rialto drove home to him the problems of educating youths. In a 1990 Los Angeles Times article on innovative teachers, Takano recalled one student told him, "Dang, Mr. Takano, if I was as smart as you, I would be selling drugs...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE RETURN OF MR. SMITH | 11/3/1992 | See Source »

...fair is all that? Did Bush really bungle Iraq, or did he make a decent job of an inherently tortuous situation? Desert Shield and Desert Storm -- the diplomacy of building an anti-Saddam coalition and then routing the Iraqi dictator on the battlefield -- are an acknowledged triumph. The smart bombs of hindsight are aimed instead at prewar diplomacy, where Bush is accused of coddling Saddam despite mounting evidence of his aggressive intentions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lessons of Iraq | 11/2/1992 | See Source »

Megan C. Donahue '91, one of Houghteling's roommates who is now in Bethesda, was not available for comment. She described Houghteling to The Washington Post as "very smart, a very hard worker, a very strong person...

Author: By Margaret Isa, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Missing Graduate May Have Been Murdered | 10/28/1992 | See Source »

...Harry is simultaneously muscling in on a mean and powerful man's family and his business. He's also conducting an affair with Helen (Jessica Lange), a waitress in the bar where he (and half of low- life New York) spends far too much time. This is not too smart either, for she is married to its manager, Phil (Cliff Gorman) -- short-tempered, mean- minded and, like Boom Boom, a man not to be trifled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Songs of A Street Hustler | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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