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...younger skaters, participating in the Jimmy Fund show is something of a dream come true. "All the skaters are really popular so you get to meet a lot of neat people," says 14-year-old Liane Moscato, a ninth grader from Peabody, who will skate in Sunday's show...
Stephen Smith, a Cambridge first-grader, who came dressed as Chuck Norris, the "karate king," said he enjoyed playing the ball toss and the other games. "I'm having lots of fun," he said after his mother prompted...
...rough and moved me up to the Pony League. When I was supposed to be in the Pony League, I was playing in a men's semipro league. I never played with friends my own age." In the ninth grade, he took up football just to be a ninth-grader. "Baseball was more of a game," he thought from the first, "football more of a device, a challenge too, but mostly a responsibility...
Things are not so simple in liberal arts land. To get trapped in the GPA inferno, you typically have something original and interesting enough to say on exams and papers to get the grader flustered, but you are not thorough enough to impress with footnotes in the original Sanskrit. Neither a bullshit artist, a workaholic, nor a genius, the soul in this circle sees his papers and exams as an endless string of B-plusses, while the operators one floor up in GPA heaven thumb their noses and jangle their Phi Beta Kappa keys at the brighter minds below...
...only mild rumblings greeted the news that six students with AIDS or AIDS-related diseases will start school on Sept. 8. "We accept that children with AIDS are going into our classrooms," said George Russo, president of a local school board that fought attendance by an AIDS-infected second-grader last year. Though his group is pressing the city to identify the six students to teachers, Russo says, "We've been educated to know what fears were unfounded and which should still be of concern...