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...member of the civic affairs club, and as a senior he was in the Rodeo Club, which organized barbecues, square dances and junkets to rodeos. In his yearbook John's roster of activities was scanty but unembarrassing, just as his senior-picture hair length seemed perfectly median, neither long nor short. Bill Lierman, the Rodeo Club's sponsor, recalled nothing untoward. Says Lierman: "He wasn't a rowdy. He got along fine with all the kids." And a sampling of schoolmates' reminiscences shows a consensus. David Wildman, the basketball captain, calls him "a middle...
Cabrini-Green consists of 23 high-rise buildings and 55 row houses, all packed onto a 70-acre wedge of Chicago just south of the trendy Old Town neighborhood. Even when the project opened 39 years ago, the neighborhood was a high-crime pocket. Today the median income is $4,575 a year, and almost eight out of ten famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors...
Test scores of the 450 pupils dramatically bear out Fitler's success. Less than 50% of Philadelphia's pupils reach or surpass the national median on standardized tests in reading, math and language skills; at Fitler, 81% do so. Only 2% of Fitler's students are in the bottom sixth; citywide, the percentage is 17%. Such scores evidently result from Fitler's program, not just good luck in obtaining bright students. The evidence: Fitler children scored far lower at the start of the school's old-fashioned experiment in 1976; they have improved each year...
Because the median of the advanced class is usually a B-plus/ A-minus while the median of the other section is a C, students have complained about intense grade competition...
...Congress holds the lid on itself, no one else gets a raise. The main argument against pay increases, say their opponents, is that federal workers earning $50,000 to $60,000 a year are better able to cope with inflation than the typical U.S. family of four, whose median income is about $22,000. The Supreme Court last month ruled that the freeze did not apply to Justices' salaries, thereby giving themselves and all other federal judges 13% raises. But the ruling did not extend to the Executive or Legislative branches...