"I never thought someone from a little rural hick town could actually compete with the bigger city high schools," she says.

“我从来没想过一个来自乡下小镇的人竟然能够和来自大城市的高中生进行竞争，”他说。

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Using a combination of junk bond debt and bank financing, Singleton and his 87-year-old partner, Richard Scudder, are masters at bunching smallish suburban and hick-town papers around metro areas and skimming off advertising revenue that would otherwise go to the big paper in the city.

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