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Even with his leather jacket, wraparound shades and permanent slouch, Matt can't quite pull off the menacing air people attach to drug dealers. Maybe it's the fact that he operates under the stately trees of Chicago's wealthy North Shore, or that he is only 17 and wears braces. He parks his late-model Lincoln in the student lot and saunters through the after-school crowd loitering on "Smokers' Corner," a short block from New Trier Township High School. Matt talks the language of business, not crime. "The way to make a large sum of money is with...
Most New Trier kids who smoke pot--by all accounts more than three-fifths of the student body--wouldn't be caught dead in a jacket like that. Only a fraction of New Trier's pot smokers--the denizens of the Corner among them--view getting high as the main part of their identity. For most, marijuana is an ancillary pleasure of growing up comfortably in the '90s, not the least bit incompatible with varsity athletics, the spring musical or advanced-placement chemistry. After all, most of the kids at New Trier will go on to succeed, just as their...
Certainly watching a father turn his son in because that son has killed his grandchild is heart wrenching. So was the sight of Barbara Peterson hiding her head in her son's soft fleece jacket, one she may have bought for him to wear on cool November days as co-captain of his soccer team, as she walked him into the courthouse. But perhaps his conscience had been warped somewhere along the way by these same parents. His mother's weeklong reaction was to keep her son from authorities and consider helping him escape punishment altogether after he admitted, minimally...
Amid the mayhem, the director remains a perfectionist. He fusses with each shot, unbuttoning the jacket on an Irish musician who is about to be wrenched from his wife's arms by a flailing fellow passenger. An extra with a bandage on his head--presumably from damage inflicted during an earlier shot--is admonished to keep his face turned away from the camera...
...student told police that he did not get a good look at his attacker, but nevertheless described the suspect as a dark-haired man in his late 20s, about 6-feet tall and of medium build. The suspect was wearing a winter hat and a denim jacket...