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Lawrence King, an eighth grader who identified as gay and wore makeup and nail polish, was 15 when he was declared brain dead on Feb. 13. The day before, he had been shot in the head in an Oxnard, Calif., classroom full of students. Police have charged a sweet-faced boy called Brandon McInerney, 14, with first-degree murder and with a hate crime. According to the Los Angeles Times and KTLA, McInerney and some other boys accosted King about his sexuality on Feb. 11. Students apparently often taunted King, who didn't even have a safe home to return...
...around the turn of the millennium, but most of the bands hyped during that movement have been forgotten. Over the last few years, hope for the resurrection of popular rock in America diminished until a debacle called “First Impressions of Earth” put the final nail in the coffin. Perhaps no band better exemplifies America’s resistance to good rock better than British Sea Power. In 2005, MTV in North America banned the video for their single “Please Stand Up” because of the devilishly provocative lyric...
...more than two points. But the Crimson lost its hold on Endicott and failed to regain control in the remainder of the match. Slamming down a kill after a Harvard timeout, the Gulls secured their biggest lead of the night, 23-20, and kept up the momentum to nail down a 30-22 victory over the Crimson.“I think we considered ourselves better than we were, and by doing that, we took the other team for granted,” sophomore Erik Kuld said. “You can’t do that because they?...
...skills and learn from one another. To do this, TAP teachers meet in small groups led by a master teacher for one to two hours a week, generally during the school day. That degree of supervision can be a tough sell to veteran teachers. "I hated it tooth and nail," says Cathy Dailey, who has been teaching science at Bell Street Middle School in Clinton, S.C., for 21 years. "All of a sudden I had to articulate my goals and know that someone was going to come in and watch me." Dailey particularly disliked being forced to reflect in writing...
...their past glory. After going 2-1 in the first weekend of the Ivy Championships, the men continued at the same pace to finish third overall, falling to the Lions, 18-9, but defeating Brown, 21-6. The women also finished third, losing, 17-10 to Columbia and a nail-biter, 14-13, to the Bears, despite defeating Cornell, 17-10. The men were simply overmatched in the meet against the Lions, with the lone close call coming in a 5-4 foil defeat. Junior co-captain Kai Itameri-Kinter notched one of the most impressive wins...