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...disorder has often taken particularly ugly forms: drug use and violent crime . . . have become major social problems." Thus a "proper educational environment requires close supervision of schoolchildren," along with "a certain degree of flexibility in school disciplinary procedures." The key, White declared, is to strike a "balance" between the schoolchild's right to some privacy and the school's need to keep order...
...again, and talking of Nordic skiing and the luge. A foreign language for Americans, who in a sense return to the Old World on these occasions, or a dream version of that world, to European movie kingdoms where athletes really do come from Liechtenstein. For 1984: Sarajevo. (Henceforth no schoolchild will be stumped on that
This same force is now propelling the proponents of prayer in the schools. If every schoolchild in America attended church, it would be illogical to put prayer in an institution of secular education. The problem, if course, is that the religious are trying to use the government's system of public schools to imbue some Americans with a message they will not come to church to hear...
...State sage or schoolchild can tell you that Franklin Park has never made the tourist brochures as a prime viewing spot for fall foliage. But bunches of Green swarmed across the landscape yesterday afternoon during the Harvard-Dartmouth men's cross country meet, as the visitors overwhelmed their Crimson hosts...
Every South Florida schoolchild is taught the story of the founding of Miami, for to Floridians the tale has all the sacred qualities of a modern Aeneid. In 1896 a woman named Julia Tuttle came south to visit the charming village that was then called Fort Dallas. She fell in love with town--here Miamians usually add, "of course"--and wrote to her friend Henry Flagler, owner of the Florida East Coast Railroad, begging him to bring his railroad down so more people could visit the area. Flagler laughed; nobody would want to go that far south, he said. Then...