Word: cubs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reform, but spokesperson is exactly what Zachary Christie of Newark, Del., has become. Over the past month, Christie has harshly criticized the unfairness of his school’s zero-tolerance policies, and for good reason—Christie himself was recently suspended from school for bringing in a Cub Scout tool that can be used as a knife, fork, or spoon. This seemingly innocuous item violated the district’s no-tolerance policy on weapons; Christie may now have to serve 45 days in reform school...
Nevertheless, Christie’s parents and other members of the community are right to express outrage at the facts of the case. Christie is only six years old, and he brought the knife in because he wanted to show off his new Cub Scout tool at lunch. The rationale behind suspending him and potentially sentencing him to a month and a half in reform school seems highly questionable: Christie is not a student with violent or disruptive tendencies, so the question remains as to which aspects of his behavior need to be “reformed...
...studios now house upper-middle-class families; bohemian standby Village Voice has been bought out by New Times Media; college interns willing to work unpaid edge out older degree-holding peers insistent on a wage. Many successful journalists break into the business outside the Big Apple—either cub reporting at small-town papers or finding jobs abroad...
...Princeton students, with a fifth incident of lewdness just this year occurring on Monday. The incident: a shirtless middle-aged man, whom students described him as having “grayish-brown hair” and “a protruding stomach,” exposed himself outside Charter Cub. Honestly, who are these people...
...mugging reaction shot. And if conservative politicians and talk-show hosts still bear the brunt of most of Stewart's barbs, Obama has hardly come away unscathed - from Stewart's early lampooning of Obama worship (in one video, the Democratic candidate was presented to the world like the royal cub in The Lion King) to his impatience with the friendly interplay between Obama and audience members at his first health-care town-hall meeting: "Is this a town hall or a Tom Jones concert...