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...doesn't want the issue framed as stadiums vs. schools. "The state has enough to do both," she says. In Philadelphia, 80% of students are poor enough to have something in common with the team owners: they, too, qualify for a free lunch. Unfortunately, they don't have a lunchroom to eat it in at Willard. Maybe they can use the new sky boxes on nongame days...
...last week, Bard College president Leon Botstein had this suggestion: "The American high school is obsolete and should be abolished." It's a thought. As Botstein says, "At 16, young Americans are prepared to be taken seriously... They need to enter a world where they are not in a lunchroom with only their peers...
...worked. I won the pool. I was the toast of the lunchroom...
Billy Watson, the man they call Opie because he looks a little like the kid from Mayberry, was drenched with sweat one day in the Mueller lunchroom, where he made himself a sandwich of white bread and vacuum-packed ham he'd brought from home. On the job since he got out of high school 15 years ago, Watson connects the aboveground portion of hydrants to the belowground portion, pushing iron logs around with the help of an overhead crane...
Opie would draw up plans on a napkin in the Mueller lunchroom and hand them to a buddy who knew how to draw blueprints. "We wanted a place big enough so that if my mother or Rhonda's ever needed, they could move in with us," says Opie. The house took five years to plan and nine months to build, but to sit in it with them now, to hear them talk about it, you wouldn't know they moved in 2 1/2 years ago. It looks new, feels new. And they look as though they haven...