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...applying for a series of jobs: as a cleaning person, a supermarket clerk and as an "associate" at various big-box stores. No, I hadn't given up on writing; I was doing research for a book on the low-wage life. I was expecting to toil and sweat, even wear unflattering uniforms. But I wasn't expecting to have to share my innermost thoughts...
...booed off the stage at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. That may help explain why, for the rest of her career, this rock innovator shied away from the limelight, writing songs that others turned into hits (Stoned Soul Picnic for the 5th Dimension; And When I Die for Blood, Sweat and Tears; Stoney End for Barbra Streisand). The crowd at that landmark Monterey festival was more into high-energy rockers like Janis Joplin, for whom performing was as intoxicating as the heroin that eventually killed...
...have, however, noticed that my close friends and roommates have learned to respect the work that I do. They see the intensity of my projects, and when they come to my photo shows or my films, they understand that it is the product of hundreds of hours of sweat and tears and an intense love for what I have chosen to study. After the screening of my film this semester, they understood that it wasn't a cheesy movie I had done "for fun," but the result of an entire year of writing, producing, directing and editing, involving...
...sweat of former dropout Ernest Chavez, 17, hunched over a computer, intent on making up enough courses to graduate with his class. It's there when Sergeant Jose Campos, 62, who has been teaching Junior ROTC for 24 years, brags that this year he has "87 young ladies in my program"--the most ever. And you hear it in the school's mariachi band, practicing before sunrise. A visit to Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School in San Antonio, Texas, shows how far the school has come. Just five years ago, it was the worst school in Texas...
...Friday afternoon, though, Benito got his comeuppance: Challenged by a lesser bully to a routine after-school brawl by the bicycle shed, Benito seemed unfazed as a crowd gathered expectantly. Ordinarily, he could have dispatched the challenger without breaking a sweat. But at a given signal, Benito found himself set upon, not just by the challenger, but by a hitherto unthinkable alliance of lesser bullies, jocks, do-gooders and former victims. It was over in seconds, Benito limping off, his shirt ripped, his nose bloodied and - the ultimate humiliation for the bully among bullies - tears streaming down his meaty cheeks...