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According to The Dartmouth, the hearing concluded that the four students entered Cole's classroom on February 25 with cameras and a tape recorder and one of them, Baldwin, the editor-in-chief of the Review, asked Cole to read aloud a letter. The letter responded to an earlier Review article which criticized Cole's class...
...Lewenberg in Boston, Principal O'Neill has designed, as a colorful celebration of reading achievements, a twin-tailed Chinese dragon stretching across the entrance to the school's two wings. Students begin each day of the year by reading aloud. And every afternoon, everyone in the school -- including secretaries, administrators, security aides and teachers -- ends the day by reading silently. Anyone who finishes a novel gets to add a piece of paper to the dragon's tail, with the title of the book and the reader's name. With five months left in the school year, the dragon already stretches...
That's the secret, really. Don't write out "TIME!!!" in inch-high scrawl--it only brings out the sadist in us. Don't (Cliffies) write offers to come over and read aloud to us your illegible remarks--we can (officially) read anything, and we may be married. Write on both sides of the page--single-blue-book finals look like less work to grade, and win points. This chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good five extra points if you can hack...
...brush with death. Of the idea of an afterlife, he says, "I never think about it." But after years of brooding intensity and frequent suspicion of the larger world, he seems to have achieved a midlife serenity. Formerly a renowned partygiver, Sondheim is a homebody these days, and fretted aloud that his house was too run down -- there are cracks in the walls from subsidence, and the upholstery is in shreds from his cats -- to have the Woods cast over for a proper party...
Just before the opening bell, Phelan reads aloud a message from President Reagan praising traders for their "calm, professional" work during the frantic week. Citibank lowers its prime rate by a quarter-point, to 9%; other New York banks follow within 20 minutes. Inexplicably, the market plummets 138 points in the first 45 minutes...