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...actor because he lies so well." Cosby starred in class plays and displayed both a talent for mimicry and a prodigious memory. He scored high on intelligence tests, and was assigned to a high school for gifted students. There he enjoyed clowning and playing football, but his classwork suffered. He flunked the tenth grade twice, returned to a regular school, flunked again and finally dropped out. His mother was bitterly disappointed. But even in failure, she says, "Bill was determined to be somebody...
...surprising that the New Jersey Supreme Court found last year that school officials could only search student lockers with reasonable belief that such a search would provide evidence that the student engaged in activities that "materially disrupts classwork or involves substantial disorder or involves substantial disorder or invasion of the rights of others." More surprising still that the court found that "as the intrusiveness of the search intensifies, the standard of Fourth Amendment 'reasonableness' approaches probable cause." Translation to common language: The Fourth Amendment protection against arbitrary searches indeed extends beyond the schoolhouse gate; evidence obtained from such illegal searches...
...their first six weeks in company-run classes, and managers are required to take at least 40 hours of additional instruction a year. The classwork often focuses on actual business case studies, in the manner of the Harvard Business School...
Most Asian students at Harvard are nearly as unfamiliar with Boston's Chinatown community as the thousands of tourists and Boston-area residents who go there each year for groceries, good food, or just to have a look around. Like other Harvard students. Asians can easily find enough classwork and campus activities to keep them busy in Cambridge. But a small group working through Harvard's Phillips Brooks House (PBH) have opted to involve themselves in a neighborhood whose problems often go unnoticed by outsiders...
...returned to Cambridge, Mass. last week, a little bit behind on classwork but pleased with the results of her intercontinental field trip. The U.S. team won the First Annual Women's Lacrosse World Games, largely as a result of DenHartog's sparkling play...