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Initially pleased, the firemen soon realized the kids were skipping class to hang out in the firehouse. So Engine Company 16 approached Betty Greer, principal of the closest elementary school, with an unusual idea. "These men basically adopted us," Greer says. With profits from the pay phone attached to the firehouse, which had heavy use from local drug dealers, the firemen bought radios to give away each month to children who earned especially good grades. They persuaded police officers and junk dealers to begin dropping off broken bike frames. A local bicycle repairman donated old tires and rims...
...perfect attendance or outstanding grades ride home on bikes that Flowers rebuilt the previous winter. Last June nearly 100 winners pedaled out the front doors on their rewards for making the attendance rate at Hartigan Community Arts Specialty School among the best in Chicago. "We were just delighted," says Greer. "These children need to know that there are men who are black and who don't sell drugs or aren't involved with drugs. They need to know that there are men who care for them and that this is what real...
...letter from an attorney for Spelling Entertainment Group advising them that Hart's summaries constituted "unauthorized derivative works of the property" and that unless he removed them from the Web by the end of the month--just before the sixth-season premiere!--Spelling would "take appropriate action." Hart called Greer Bosworth, the lawyer who had signed the letter, and asked, Why? What for? What's the problem? Bosworth said she thought the letter was pretty self-explanatory. It wasn't. There are dozens of Melrose Place-centric Websites out there, including sites devoted entirely to Heather Locklear, Daphne Zuniga...
...five students-first-years Rachel Wolgelernter, Batsheva Greer and Elisha Dov Hack and sophomores Lisa Friedman and Jeremy Hershman-are fighting a residential requirement for first-years that has been in place for years...
...decision to get rid of me. I thought at the time, "You are going to be paying me while I play." And so he has, and his children and grandchildren also will be doing so because I expect to be hanging in there 18 more years. ELLEN M. GREER Kissimmee...