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...third time in 21 years she had had to fill in as mayor, part of her duty as the town's recorder and treasurer; one previous mayor resigned and another pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana with the intent to distribute it. A grade-school teacher in Bradford for 35 years, Edens had a reputation for being a terror in the classroom-one alderman jokingly swears she used to paddle him-but she's more of a softie than her soldier boss. Working from her airless cubicle at city hall for 18 months, she says she tried to keep the town...
Brendon Small is a soccer-playing grade-schooler, but what he really wants to do is direct. Cartoon Network's animated series trails Brendon and his pals as they shoot and quibble artistically over some of the worst B movies ever committed to home video. Quirky and unsentimental, this is a rare, sophisticated cartoon that truly understands the weird power of childhood imagination...
...earliest memories of recess at grade school begin with teachers setting us loose to swing on monkey bars or climb the jungle gym; exercise was an instinctively social activity. We shoved, we kicked, we jostled, exerting ourselves in rambunctious little packs, only wandering off to be alone when our feelings or bodies were badly hurt. Even when we lined up for jumping jacks, we couldn't help glancing at the kids around us and making funny faces when they glanced back. We discharged our energy freely, chaotically, swapping our high spirits with friends and paying no attention to our pulse...
...many others, I suspect--the lonely, introverted process of statistically quantifying my strength and stamina levels and comparing them to some abstract norm started a few years later, in fifth grade, when we were called to the playground to compete for the President's physical fitness certificate. The hidden purpose of this cold war--era program was, I presume, to transform the public schools into a vast network of junior boot camps. The criteria for obtaining the certificate were ominously unvarying and exact. If a child couldn't do a certain number of chin-ups or complete...
...this round, the society nominated 176 seniors—twice the number that were finally elected. As in past years, the nominations were based primarily on grade-point averages...