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...associating largely with straights, viewing pals' sexcapades from the sidelines with what-fools-these-breeders-be amusement. But if nothing else, gay and straight characters show a new openness, sophistication and realism, sometimes with the help of consultants; GLAAD worked with McCormack to refine Will after the show's pilot. ("No gay man had hair like Will's, really long in the back," jokes Seomin. "He looked like Jerry Seinfeld.") Certainly much of the biting banter and in-jokes of W&G--"I haven't seen a kiss that uncomfortable since Richard Gere and Jodie Foster in Sommersby"--would...
...about 2000 students at Cambridge's only public high school, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), the house is home. When they enter as freshmen, each student is placed in one of the school's five houses: The Academy, Fundamental, House A, Leadership or Pilot. Each house has its own floor in one of the two buildings that comprise the school...
...Pilot School was created, offering mixed-level classes, and other experimental teaching styles and course offerings. The Fundamental School opened six years later. Heralded as the anti-Pilot, Fundamental offered a "back-to-basics" diet of core classes...
...Pilot, the oldest alternative school in the country, is the smallest of the houses, with 235 students in all four grades. The Fundamental School operates with a prescribed curriculum in a fundamental educational setting. The Academy emphasizes collaborative learning, through team-teaching and heterogeneous class groupings. 40 percent of The Academy's student are enrolled in the Bilingual Program (see Lost and Found in Translation, page 9). The Leadership School emphasizes community service and teachers try to educate everyone--including special needs students--together within the core subjects. In House A there are leveled classes where students are grouped...
...People look at House A and The Pilot School as being the best houses," says Less Kimbrough, assistant house administrator for the Leadership School. "Kids choose based on the reputation. Perception is reality sometimes. If you think it, it is true." Kimbrough adds that Pilot has tended to attract highly educated parents. Small numbers and strong parent involvement create a tightly knit house with "a strong sense of community...