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...until just before the Christmas break that Henry Fassbender, shaper of ninth-grade minds at P.S. 117 in Huntington, Ind., finally found a moment to inspect the Amistad learning kit for himself. It had been sent to the school by overnight mail from DreamWorks, and the whole history department was aflutter. The graphics were compelling, the subject matter gripping, but as Henry sat in the faculty lounge carefully perusing the glossy pages, his heart began to sink. He could see his upcoming vacation unraveling with every page--victim to the unbearable lightness of a Hollywood learning...
...teenagers right before his eyes, an event that occurred on the day in 1963 that four black girls were killed when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Ala. He called the death a defining experience that made him "hungry for justice." Last month he withdrew his nomination to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Virgil Ware was killed all right, but he was no relation to the judge...
...only 14 and lives a continent away from Legare, in San Francisco, but perhaps not quite a world apart. Having come out to her parents and schoolmates at age 12, she now calls herself "a queer youth activist"--an identification she uses effortlessly, as though she were saying "ninth grader" or "aspiring poet," other terms that describe her. Articulate beyond her years, De Vries' work with a gay youth group led to her appointment to an advisory committee of the city's Human Rights Commission. She is, by more than a decade, the committee's youngest member. Jarringly precocious...
Tufts won the championship with 170 points, geared by a 69 score in its A division. Boston University (217) came in ninth, Boston College (242) tenth, and Princeton (339) 15th...
...Harvard co-ed sailing team was also at the ACC, with this one taking place at Connecticut College. Harvard finished in ninth place out of 16 teams with a score...