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===Angela Li===
Principal Li is best known in the series for her grossly authoritarian and ruthless management style. While her character is generally acknowledged as being over the top for comic effect, the actual governing system she commands within [[Lawndale High]] borders on being a paranoid
Even more revealing, and putting her character even further over the top, is a letter she wrote on school letterhead that appears in ''[[The Daria Database]]'' (under "Political Acumen"), ostensibly mailed to then-governor George W. Bush of Texas. She congratulates the governor for the large number of executions under his administration, and in a breathtaking display of cheek explains that she is attempting to acquire actual electric chairs from Utah and Texas—the ones used to execute Gary Gilmore and Karla Faye Tucker, respectively, though she will settle for a copy of the latter—to place in the entrance hall of [[Lawndale High]] as a deterrent to students who might "cut a class, fail to use a No. 2 pencil, or otherwise start down the long road to a squandered, felonious life." She ends the letter expressing a hope that Bush will run for president in 2000, a rather prescient comment given that the book itself was published in November 1998. One is left with the feeling that her political views fall somewhere to the right of most neo-cons.
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