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At a high-school basketball game, Lester is transfixed by a blonde cheerleader named Angela (Mena Suvari), who is twirling alongside his daughter, Jane (Thora Burch).
Tuesday, a week after the Colorado high-school massacre, President Clinton proposed new gun control legislation and asked Americans to rethink the issue.
The WP lead explains that the Army's new educational initiative is particularly well suited to Hispanics, who make up 40 percent of those potential recruits who show high military aptitude despite lacking a high-school diploma, and to deployed soldiers, who, it is thought, should be able to keep up with course work via Internet-aided "distance learning" far better than they could via traditional classroom-based coursework.
An article celebrates the return to favor of jazz pianist Keith Jarrett, whose sharp tongue is nearly as famous as his music (he disses Wynton Marsalis as a "talented high-school trumpet player").
You only have to imagine a state policy applying the high-school quota system to, say, basketball scholarships--and explicitly being praised by state officials as a way to increase the number of white basketball players--to realize how empty the claims are that this arrangement avoids the alleged evil of racial preference.