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Born in Trenton, the only child of a Sicilian immigrant, Scalia was raised in a household that was close, religious and intellectually challenging. His mother was a grade-school teacher, his father a professor of Italian literature. Scalia attended St. Francis Xavier High School, a Jesuit school in Manhattan, where he was an officer in the JROTC, directed the marching band - and played the title role in the school production of Macbeth. ("Don't let the ribbing get to you," he told the mortified younger boy playing Lady Macbeth, who still remembers this small act of kindness.) He tied...
...Irving, Wayne Gretzky...the list of magnificent athletes is endless. Weekly, I am presented with the myopic American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...
...Grade-school children decorated place mats for the official birthday dinner. One contributor had drawn the yellow line down the middle of Main Street in an oblique, Miro-like style, an imaginative effort to contain its unwieldy width, its absence of definition by such amenities as regular curbs, trees or design coherence. Another, apparently in a very early grade, drew a psychic space showing the hero of the day surrounded by pictures labeled Minnesota, Pigout, The Dude, Breakdance, Camper--and a list of the National Football League teams...
Stein has long rated high with his colleagues, who elected him president of the District of Columbia Bar in 1982 (among his qualifications for the honor, Stein whimsically listed his having won a grade-school marble championship). A lifelong Washingtonian, he is one of the capital's wealthiest private attorneys (although he normally takes a bus to the office). Stein, who is so apolitical that he has never registered to vote, successfully defended Attorney Kenneth Parkinson in the Watergate conspiracy trial. But he failed to persuade a different jury that Dwight Chapin, Richard Nixon's appointments secretary...
...arts teachers, a group that once eyed the computer revolution with suspicion and dread. Two years ago, researchers at New York City's progressive Bank Street College of Education decided to find out how word processors might affect the writing of their students. They had a few hundred grade-school children and a dozen microcomputers. But they lacked one necessary ingredient: a suitable writing program. Recalls President Richard Ruopp: "We tested the available word processors and found we couldn't use any of them...