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...June 1, 28 fifth- through ninth-graders in nine Cambridge public schools were searched and interviewed, part of an effort to decrease perceived gang activity, according to Superintendent of Schools Bobbie D'Alessandro. Two weapons (a knife and a meat tenderizer) and graffiti tags thought to be gang symbols were found, and all 28 students said they had some knowledge of gang activity, according to school officials...
...Both men ran very well," Haggerty said. "Martin was eighth, and Baker was ninth out of about 103 finishers...
...certainly relevant to Shastan Cooke. The ninth-grader got to meet the Governor last week in Columbus, Ohio, at the welfare training center where he works. "Do well," the Governor said in a kind of blessing, before telling the crowd that it was time to say "Enough is enough." After Bush left, Cooke was asked whether it would matter if the Governor had ever done drugs. "It would make a difference," said the boy, who knew about what drug use had done to his neighborhood. "That's sending a message that you can do drugs and get away with...
Until recently, he was right. A 15-year-old ninth-grader, Lance had been declared "emotionally conflicted," and was shielded from expulsion by federal laws that protect children with disabilities. But last April he went too far. On a school bus full of children, he punched a teacher's aide and threatened to grab the steering wheel and cause a wreck. District Attorney David Whetstone sued the boy in civil court, describing him as a "clear and present danger," and persuaded a state judge to bar him from all Alabama public schools. "It was a little creative," says Whetstone...
...Total Recall. The company gets its primary income from a film library of 6,600 titles that generates an annual $35 million in cash flow, but it scored its first cult hit with 1998's dark fantasy Pi. Coming are more genre films, including Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate, as well as works from directors Atom Egoyan, Steven Soderbergh and Jim Jarmusch...