Word: grades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Talking with my brother, I relived memories of victories past on Opening Day. While waiting for autographs, my 18-year old brother was once again in fifth grade, with short hair, returning triunphantly with a Jim Rice autograph. Jeff Pierce tossed him a ball, and we thought of the 40 other regulation baseballs my brother has been able to sweet talk players into giving him over the years...
...over it. After I lost that, I brought my lunch to school in a brown paper bag. Then we ran out of food at my house, but I told everyone I had a magic invisible lunch, and they all thought I was the coolest kid in the second grade...
...briefly touched on the subject of grade inflation, which has been on the committee's agenda for much of the year...
Most memos sent to the departments to assess feelings on grade inflation have not yet been returned, meaning that the subject will be addressed again next fall and no action will be taken this year...
...days later, Jean Colonna, the brash boy of grunge Parisian avant-grade, presented his fall collection of women's and men's clothing at the Institute of Contemporary Art. The event was a fundraiser for the Institute, the ideal location to the introduce Colonna's hybrid clothing. Both the women's and men's wear combined tight-fitting polyesters, black and silver leathers and a transparent, paper-like material. The models came swaggering down the runways in provocative, fluid movements, some dancing exotically to the grinding heavy metal. The whole event was very "in your face" with the women wearing...