Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Young Park Elementary occupies a well-kept building set among the barracks-like structures of Norfolk's Young Terrace public housing project. Of its 341 students, 98% are black and 94% are poor enough to qualify for the free-lunch program. This year so far, the parents or guardians of 60 to 70 kids have joined the PTA. "Some of the children arrive at school not knowing their full name; they just know their nickname," says principal Ruby Greer, who has managed to improve test scores and attendance. "They don't know how to hold a pencil or a book...
...beginning, it was great to see my heroes playing in strange parks. Watching Cecil Fielder face a Roger Clemens fastball (in 1993, it still had some speed) in Fenway Park provided some excitement; similarly, Barry Sanders' finding holes in the Patriots' defensive line much to the chagrin of Bill Parcells and the Foxboro faithful provided some excitement...
...President Clinton reportedly once asked him to head the National Park Service...
...childhood Ted seemed to avoid human contact. As their firstborn sulked through grade school, his parents suspected that he might be unhappy because he was so much brighter than his peers. In those years "he was a discipline problem," admits Robert Rippey, a retired math teacher at Evergreen Park High School who remembers Ted fondly as one of his brightest students. "He drove his teachers up the wall. So in high school we had to figure something out." What his parents and school officials arrived at was the accelerated curriculum that allowed him to skip his junior year of high...
...meantime, however, the players can go home and forget about the score. In years to come the score will be forgotten, but the memories of Fenway Park will never fade. UMass 13 Harvard...