Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school and where they grew up. These topics can sustain a conversation for hours, as the theory of Six Degrees of Separation proves true again and again. In fact, it turns out I first met one of the interns in my office on an exchange program in seventh grade. We spent hours talking about the fact that the person she had hosted was now married, and the person who had hosted me was incarcerated. Similar stories have popped up again and again...
...rather liked being a kid. Immaturity has always struck me as a good trait, whether it be making dumb jokes, shooting rubber bands at people or watching "Scooby Doo." And the Mystery Machine gang is just as cool as it was in second grade...
...Alicia's short stories is a difficult task, made harder still by the swirling rumors passed along among the excitable ninth-graders like trading cards. After Chris Mills killed himself in March, crisis teams went to the school but talked mostly with students in his class, the 11th grade. There was no opportunity then to identify Alicia, who knew Mills slightly, as a particular copycat risk. The local press and tabloid-television reporters made much of the fact that both girls hung with a crowd that wore black clothes and black lipstick and listened to gothic music, as if they...
This is how it starts. A girl grows up in Southern California. Really grows up. By the seventh grade she is 6 ft. tall. By the eighth grade she is 6 ft. 2 in. A friend asks her to play basketball for the school. She has no female role models for this, so James Worthy, the Los Angeles Laker star, becomes her role model. "I loved James," she says, "because he was the player other players would go to when they needed a basket." Senior year in high school she scores 101 points in one game. In a single half...
...wore them to school. There she is teased because of her name, even though Venus is the goddess of beauty. "Venus is a planet," kids tell her. Even when her own family chooses sides for basketball games, she is left on the sidelines. But in the fourth grade the braces come off, and her body, in celebration, grows to 6 ft. 4 in. and 190 pounds. She becomes an athlete, a college star, a pro player in Europe. Now she's something more. "I used to think that someday someone would want me on their team," says Venus Lacy...