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...paper and in trophy cases. "The jocks and the cheerleaders, yes, have the most clout," says Blake McConnell, a student at Sprayberry High School near Atlanta. "They get out of punishment--even with the police. Joe Blow has a wreck and has been drinking, and he gets the book thrown at him. The quarterback gets busted, and he gets a lighter sentence...
...Black and Gold starts with a seemingly endless chanting of "Amor de rey! Amor de reina!" (Love of the king! Love of the queen!) and the "crown" (middle and ring fingers held in, other three extended) being thrown around all over the place, on top of some heavy beats provided by Sasha Costanza-Chock, who mixed the soundtrack. King Tone, the current leader of the Nation, then talks about his own sense of transformation and that of the Nation, saying that it forces young people to ask themselves "Who are you ? If you don't know...
Black and Gold starts with a seemingly endless chanting of "Amor de rey! Amor do reina!" (Love of the king! Love of the queen!) and "crown" (middle and ring fingers held in, other three extended) being thrown around all over the place, on top of some heavy beats provided by Sasha Costanza-Chock, who mixed the soundtrack. King Tone, the current leader of the Nation, then talks about his own sense of transformation and that of the Nation, saying that it forces young people to ask themselves "Who are You? If you don't know...
...repercussions of taking her to University Health Services (UHS). Would she get in trouble? Would my friend and her roommates be punished by the University for something they had no part in? Would the pre-frosh who had originally acquired the alcohol have their standing here next year thrown into jeopardy? Would the hosts be the victims of disciplinary action for not monitoring their pre-frosh's every action, thus letting her drink herself into oblivion...
While most of these notes get thrown out, I've been hanging on to one particular scrap that grabbed my attention. It bears only the Jeopardy-esque remark, "A Portuguese word that means 'nostalgia for a thing that never existed.'" I don't know where this note came from or what in fact the word is. A cursory search of Portuguese speakers and dictionaries has failed to find it, and I'm beginning to suspect that it, too, is a thing that never existed...