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...aren't allowed to wear a hat, toot your horn, form a clique or pick on a freshman, all because everyone is worried that someone might snap, it's fair to ask: Are high schools preparing kids for the big ugly world outside those doors--or handicapping them once they get there? High school was once useful as a controlled environment, where it was safe to learn to handle rejection, competition, cruelty, charisma. Now that we've discovered how unsafe a school can be, it may have become so controlled that some lessons will just have to be learned elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week In The Life Of A High School | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...wound up with a sharp Ram's horn deep in his thigh...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Secondary Suffers Without Waller | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

Actually, it was more like a cleated foot, but it did about as much damage as a horn would have done...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Secondary Suffers Without Waller | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...Hawks weren't finished, though, as Sambrook finished off Hartwick's scoring with an amazing 30 yard shot just two minutes before the final horn sounded...

Author: By Barat Samy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: M. Soccer Falls again to Hartwick, 3-1 | 10/18/1999 | See Source »

...came to us from a branch of the performing arts in which large men who resemble comic-book characters pretend to fight each other, so when he was inaugurated and did not appoint barflies and dope dealers to office but donned a suit and white shirt and horn-rimmed glasses and managed to sound half-smart about a third of the time, his approval ratings turned three sheets to the wind and have stayed that way ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota: Let Jesse Ventura Be Jesse... | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

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