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...class valedictorian at the State University of New York, Binghamton, in 1968, "when it was full of radicals." The students were throwing off '50s shackles and looking to other cultures for solutions. The Doors' battle cry, "We want the world, We want it now," exhilarated Paglia. After four restless years at Yale getting her Ph.D. in English, she found herself teaching at Bennington...
...doesn't win a Golden Gloves championship; he doesn't jam with both hands. He thinks and/or makes money. And, in a pathological way, I believe these guys were being bright Jewish boys who went awry. They were saying, "Look, Mom, I beat the system. I'm a valedictorian." They didn't set out to hurt anyone. They had raging arrogance, grandiosity and deceptive intent, but I don't think they had malicious intent...
...mining jobs have vanished and 7,000 of its 50,000 residents have moved away, leaving divided families and empty houses. Unemployment is officially 12%, but 25% may be more accurate. In Logan, the county seat, empty storefronts give the town a sorrowful look. Logan High's 1991 valedictorian, Andrea Henry, speaks for many young people: "Everybody is planning on getting out. There's nothing here...
Though reserved, Hill was popular among classmates at Morris High School, finding time for the Pep Club and the Future Homemakers of America before graduating as valedictorian. "She was so smart it wasn't even funny," recalls Bill Bearden Sr., the former basketball coach. "She was very polite, well groomed and never missed a day of school." At Oklahoma State University, she majored in psychology, and graduated with honors in 1977. "We were both country bumpkins," says former roommate Susan Clark. "We socialized, but not to the extreme of getting rowdy...
Foster could pass this test because she was always a bright young woman as well as a symbol of precocious girlhood. At seven, she had entered Los Angeles' Lycee Francais, where she would perfect her French and emerge as valedictorian before heading off to Yale. So the child star could be expected to have thoughts, and to turn thoughts into sentences. Even today her teen talk is worth attending to, as another kind of Jodie Foster retrospective...