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...When TIME Correspondent Janice Simpson called Joe Clark, the controversial New Jersey high school principal, and asked him to sound off for this week's cover story on school discipline, Clark invited her to accompany him on his rounds. Off they went at breakneck speed, he with his infamous bullhorn in hand, she with her notebook. Clark strode swiftly along the corridors, swooping down to pick up stray scraps of paper and barking orders at his staff. When Clark finally sat down to talk, he remained hyperactive, bouncing out of his seat to make heartfelt points. After a dozen interviews...
...tough love is your thing, you can find a lot to love about Joe Clark. Bullhorn cradled in one arm, a stack of books and papers resting in the other, the 48-year-old principal of Eastside High in down-at-the-heels Paterson, N.J. (pop. 140,000), charms and bullies his way through the bustling corridors of his ordered domain like an old-time ward boss, relishing every step. He pinches girls on their cheeks, slaps high fives with both boys and girls, greeting most by name...
...young tenant activist leads 20 followers onto the stage before astonished University administrators can stop her. When the sound system is turned off, she grabs a bullhorn to broadcast her demand that Harvard build low-income housing...
Minutes after the shooting started, police arrived outside the post office. For 45 minutes they tried to communicate with the gunman by telephone and bullhorn. There was no response. When an Edmond SWAT team finally stormed the building at 8:30 a.m., they found Sherrill's body amid the carnage. After killing 14 people and wounding six, he had pumped a bullet into his own head...
...women had grown into a force of some 400 people. About 120 of them wore kerchiefs; the rest, men, women and children, marched in solidarity. The walked a slow, symbolic circle around a small obelisk dedicated to Argentine independence from Spain, and at the end they gathered around a bullhorn through which one member delivered an impassioned speech about the government's recent decision to take pending human rights complaints out of the hands of military tribunals and give them over to the civilian courts...