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...older men at the info center weren’t enough, there was the 11-year-old “kingpin?? in one of the all-boy, 11-to-13-year-old classes I teach for HARMONY. We call the ringleaders in any given class the “kingpin??—usually male, he’s the class clown who doesn't know any of the answers but somehow manages to talk all of the time, distracting the other children from the lesson and making an hour-long class seem like it will...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: POSTCARD FROM CAMBRIDGE: Waiting for Prince Charming | 7/27/2001 | See Source »

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