For: Pony rights, Vegetarianism,
                        The Corey Hotline, Longer school
                        days

                        Against: Meat, Universal Injustice,
                        Malibu Stacey, Whacking Day,
                        Laramie Cigarettes

                        Mentor: The late Bleeding Gums
                        Murphy
 
 

                                                LISA SIMPSON
                        Lisa Simpson takes after both her parents: she has Marge's common sense, hard
                        work ethic and sympathy for others; she has Homer's last name. Lisa's enormous
                        intelligence and moral authority place her in a unique position in the SImpson
                        family -- and, for that matter, Springfield at large.

                        Each parents' night at Springfield Elementary, Homer and Marge fight to meet
                        with Lisa's teachers rather than Bart's on the theory that being offered a tin of
                        cookies as thanks is less "upsetting" and "costly" than reviewing quarterly
                        property damage assessments for melted playground equipment. This second
                        grader also plays the saxophone with the virtuosity, if not stubble, of Springfield's
                        late blues great, Bleeding Gums Murphy.

                        For the record, Lisa says she watches TV only for "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report"
                        -- particularly since it expanded to one hour -- and any Masterpiece Theatre
                        serialization of wordy British novels. In truth, however, she is always willing to
                        interrupt a piercing MacNeil-Lehrer roundtable whenever her beloved "Itchy and
                        Scratchy" cartoons are on TV. Her deep love for cartoon characters proves that,
                        no matter how precocious she may be, Lisa is still a Simpson.