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...pitch in and pay for some of these "extras,'' there is an understandable impulse to do so. In the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, for example, the Parent Volunteer Association of the Joseph Sears primary school raised $92,000 last year to build a new playground. Similarly, a parent booster club at the Kenter Canyon elementary school in tony Brentwood, California (where one parent periodically sends her gardener over to tend the grounds), raised $78,000 to subsidize a computer instructor, a librarian, a music and art teacher and teachers' aides. "If we didn't have money from the parents," says...
...those that want to allow athletic scholarships don't see the longterm problems. They forget about how scholarships give schools incentives to cheat, or give powerful booster clubs reason to form, or create an "athletic underclass" that see school as a four-year purgatory until professional athletics become possible...
...national epidemic of stadium violence that resulted in the murder of a football fan. Authorities canceled all national sporting events scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 5, after Genoa supporter Vincenzo Spagnolo was knifed to death the previous Sunday in a brawl before his team's game against Milan. Though Milan booster Simone Barbaglia, 18, has been charged with Spagnola's death, many Italians feel the crime typifies a nationwide trend of rising violence. Said Enrico Spigone, 30, a Lazio rooter: ``The problem isn't the fans. The problem is violence in general in society. Neither the kid who got killed...
...game, it could be a start: the power play needs a kick-start, and the team as a whole could still use a booster shot. And Tomassoni is right--Konik is too good to stay downtrodden for long...
...appear responsive to the public's perceived rightward shift. Accordingly, today's action drew approval from incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), who said, "It's good for the country and good for the president that she's departed." (The most prominent Elders defender so far, birth-control booster Planned Parenthood, said this afternoon that Elders had brought "a welcome dose of real-world wisdom" to Washington...