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...kitchen on his day off to sharpen skills like butchering a whole chicken. He began practicing for the Bocuse in January 2006. By November, he could skin, cut and fillet a bird in seven minutes. But he knows that isn't good enough, since every second of prep time will count. His goal is to do it in three minutes flat. With his eyes closed. "I know the anatomy of a chicken better than I know my own," he says. His wife Linda videotapes his 12-to-16-hour practice sessions, which gives her an excuse to spend time with...
Supposedly, skulls have some sort of history as preppy iconography. Recently I was told that they are some how tangentially connected with English prep schools. But this, my friends, is America. I can deal with cheeky, sniveling hipsters wrapping their skull print scarf over a bowler hat, in an effort to disguise an extremely unflattering Edie Sedgwick-style haircut...
...Change the System. Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. The only real long-term answer to inequality is to provide a better educational system for the poor, and I mean really better: new facilities, longer school days and school years, the best college-prep classes (to lure scholars from the whiter parts of town), and significant salary bonuses for teachers who choose the toughest neighborhoods, for starters. This would require nothing less than a revolution in public education. We would have to stop funding public schools with local property taxes. The states should finance the system, spending...
...Charter School’s drumline was also truly engaging. Staged as a battle between the junior high school students and three members of THUD, this piece was the only one featuring a guest performance. The added variety greatly bolstered the show’s entertainment value. The Roxbury Prep students played on their drum pads, buckets and garbage pans extremely well, with a level of coordination that exceeded that of most campus performing art groups. Their great skill suggested that they could have performed a more intricate and complicated piece.“Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24...
...damn about grades,” Fujimoto said. “I came from an immigrant family and had no background in a lot of the subjects I was studying. At high school, they never even taught us the Periodic Table, and there I was, competing with fellows from prep schools who had already taken these things. My A’s in science were balanced by my C’s in everything else, but graduating with honors meant nothing to me then...