Word: fittingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...power failure fit right in with the pre-Halloween atmosphere, as did the nonfunctioning public address system and the several ceiling tiles above the Harvard Band that fell out of place. Add to that a spear by UNB's Wade Simpson on senior Steve Martins and a boxing exhibition provided by Dan Sherstenka on Harvard sophomore Joe Craigen (Craigen somehow got the same four minutes in penalties as Sherstenka), and one could say the game was a wee bit atypical...
...funding -- a total of $175,500 -- from the state lottery and sales taxes. But because the school belongs to a new category of independent "charter schools" -- one of nine that have opened in Michigan this fall -- Helmer, as principal, is free to spend the money as he sees fit -- on those Macs, for example -- without interference or oversight from the local board of education. He is also free to depart from the public-school curriculum, which he regards as about a mile long and an inch deep. Northlane, he vows, will teach kids to think and understand rather than learning...
...credited with inventing the charter-school idea. "If you see kids leaving you and money leaving you and you're criticized about the job you're doing, you're going to respond," he says. "This is a wake-up call for the Establishment: the old organization doesn't fit the times. It's like the Berlin Wall -- it's got to come down. But it's going to take 10 or 20 years for something new to emerge...
...surprise, but it was controlled and in a very positive way. It was a learning experience, because other people came up to me after the meeting and said, 'I've never met an openly gay person and I always thought certain stereo-types applied and you don't fit into them...
...There is more of an oppressive atmosphere for athletes because they are expected to fit in a certain type of role," says one Harvard athlete who is closeted...