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Well beyond standardized test scores, the academic, extracurricular and personal accomplishments of the incoming class were once again extremely impressive. Thirteen of the 20 students recognized by USA Today as the top high school scholars in the nation matriculated with the Class of 1999, as did six of the top 10 Westinghouse science competition winners...
...perhaps this very difficulty in processing the real world with any semblance of understanding that defines Travis's state: he cannot perceive reality beyond a basic conflict between a common man/hero in the evil world he must inhabit. Accordingly, the sight of a thirteen-year-old prostitute (Jodie Foster) fascinates him, epitomizing the destructive influence of the "scum of the streets." Later, her detestable pimp (Harvey Keitel) will be the first to face his vision of justice...
Having attained the gigantic height of 5'6" by the age of thirteen, I was not exactly prime slow dance material. My smile (a mouthful of metal) and my hair (in the process of growing out) didn't add much charm to my shiny visage...
...report by the U.N. identified no fewer than 187 suspected mass-grave sites in the former Yugoslavia, most of them in Bosnia. Thirteen supposedly had "500 bodies or more," and some as many as 5,000. The report came out a year before the fall of Srebrenica to Serb forces last July, following which up to 8,000 Muslim men, women and children vanished--either taken captive by the Serbs, killed on sight by them, or gone missing from an enormous, frequently attacked column of military-age men fleeing across Serb territory. Just how difficult it remains to investigate alleged...
Russia's pernicious internal rebellion, however, is the most serious nettle for Yeltsin's presidential prospects. Thirteen months of war there has cost 30,000 lives, left 600,000 homeless and deeply undermined the public's confidence in both its politicians and its military leadership. With the new hostage crisis came television images of frightened, exhausted women and children peering from the shattered windows of rebel buses, all of which stoked Russians' anger about the war--and Yeltsin's inability to end it. The main point of his televised scolding of the generals was to deflect that discontent toward...