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BOSTON--It was Wednesday afternoon at Roxbury's Mission Hill housing projects and as children ran everywhere on the asphalt playground between the dingy brick buildings, Amy C. Sykes '01 and Kimberly Beeman '00 tried to round up Green Group. The crowd proved too much, and in the end the two struggled to break up a fight between one student, Natasha, and a peer...
...centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that coalition of conscience ineradicably changed the course of U.S. life. Nineteen million Negro citizens forced the nation to take stock of itself--in the Congress as in the corporation, in factory and field and pulpit and playground, in kitchen and classroom. The U.S. Negro, shedding the thousand fears that have encumbered his generations, made 1963 the year of his outcry for equality, of massive demonstrations, of sit-ins and speeches and street fighting, of soul searching in the suburbs and psalm singing in the jail cells...
...process was stressful," said O'Hare. "We got down to 12 and we wanted a consensus so eventually one person got kicked out." O'Hare compares the entire randomized housing process to picking teams on the playground in grade school...
...failure of the current bilingual program to educate its constituents. Anecdotes abound about students in the bilingual program for six years who were unable to compose a basic English sentence and about the Ninth Street Elementary School, where "English instruction" consisted predominantly of three hours on the playground and in the lunchroom imbuing the English language...
There were problems onstage too, which became apparent when the show started preview performances in early December. Its story of Salvador Agron--a Puerto Rican teenager convicted of killing two white youths in a Hell's Kitchen playground in 1959--was confused and uninvolving; the staging lacked energy; and there was surprisingly little dancing for a show directed by an acclaimed choreographer, Mark Morris. Last month the producers enticed veteran director Jerry Zaks (the Tony Award-winning revival of Guys and Dolls) to take over as show doctor. He in turn brought in a new choreographer, Joey McKneely. That left...