came high school, and in Mrs. Krawet's Global Studies I class I sat next to this energetic guy named
Robert, who joked about the no-brained teenagers working in 7-11's, made fun of the way our
teacher dramatized the pronunciation of the Huang-Ho and Yangtze Rivers, and satirized the
teacher's methodology of hand-signals for facts, generalizations, and cause/effect. Finding common
ground in our senses of humor, and love of the TV Simpson's, we grew acquainted with each other.
Later in the year we teamed up as the defense lawyers in a class mock trial in which Mao Zedong
was charged with crimes against the people of China. To Mrs. Krawet's dismay, "legal wrangling"
caused the mock trial to last two weeks, even though she had planned for it to take three days, until
it was resolved by a split decision, with the jury......
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