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| | "Beverly Hills High in the 1980s" |
 | | Within the previous year, three of the high school's students had committed suicide, and afterward I heard so many stories of excruciating academic pressure, cocaine abuse, and drifting children that I came to believe there was some news I was not getting from the local metropolitan dailies. |
 | | Beverly Hills bears striking similarities to big-city suburbs such as Grosse Pointe, Michigan and Glencoe, Illinois, both of which possess renowned area high schools with national reputations for excellence; the lessons being that no great school can exist in the absence of generous public or philanthropic outlays. |
 | | Yet Beverly Hills is not Kuwait, not a land of limitless riches and profligacy, and, like other affluent American suburbs, must regularly refute the notion that it is a paradise of sybaritic millionaires. |
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