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...compromise plan defused the constitutional issue but left bruised feelings. "Why can't the private sector raise money for public schools?" asks Katherine Masi, a parent who is a member of a local New York school board. "What we need are new buildings." Says eighth-grader Melisa Figueroa: "I understand how it might help, but the problems in public schools are still going to be there...
SIDWELL FRIENDS Clinton, then Gore? Eighth-grader Al III joins senior Chelsea at tony D.C. private school...
...Americans and your diet things," Ishii-san said while he was laughing. I told him that I like food so much that I would rather eat my calories than drink them, the same rationalization my parents used on me when I was a fat fourth-grader to convince me to switch to that chemical-laden elixir. Only a blank stare and a cloud of smoke even Marge Schott would envy greeted this explanation...
Unraveling Amber's and Alicia's short stories is a difficult task, made harder still by the swirling rumors passed along among the excitable ninth-graders like trading cards. After Chris Mills killed himself in March, crisis teams went to the school but talked mostly with students in his class, the 11th grade. There was no opportunity then to identify Alicia, who knew Mills slightly, as a particular copycat risk. The local press and tabloid-television reporters made much of the fact that both girls hung with a crowd that wore black clothes and black lipstick and listened to gothic...
Actually, she's Aileen Riggin Soule nowadays. But in 1920 Miss Riggin was the 14-year-old gold-medal winner in women's springboard diving at the Olympics in Antwerp. "At the time, I was just an eighth-grader from Brooklyn Heights competing for the Women's Swimming Association of New York," says Mrs. Soule, who now lives in Honolulu, where she still swims for the--brace yourself--Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Swim Club. "When Helen Wainwright, who was also 14, and I made the Olympic team that summer, U.S. officials tried to have us disqualified for being too young. But the manager...