Word: preps
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...Discharged Prisoner (remade as A Better Tomorrow , with Chow Yun-fat in the Tse role). Nic's mother is Deborah Li, an actress in '70s soft-core sex films (Hong Kong Emmanuelle). They sent Nic to Canada to learn English when he was seven; he then attended a prep school in Arizona. His parents divorced in 1996, and Li is still steamed about Patrick's cavalier parenting skills. "When someone told him that his son was in a fight at school," Li said at a press conference this June, with Patrick at her side, "his response was, 'Great, fighting...
...Brown victory comes off a string of three straight losses for Harvard, who had dropped its three previous games to nationally ranked teams—Penn State, Washington and Portland. But though the Crimson lost all three games, the team believed they provided a great prep for the Ivy season...
...however, opposition to the policy is widespread among Ivy League admissions officials and prep school college counselors who say that it will further inflate the number of early applications...
...Susan Sarandon and yell "action," he'll get as stiff and shaky as a screen door in a gale. Rory and Kieran Culkin, younger brothers of Home Alone star Macaulay, don't know from stiff. In this month's Igby Goes Down, in which they play the same prep-school rebel at different points in his life, they seem as at ease on camera as most people are on their couch...
...weeks ago, Boston University’s administration demanded that Dr. James Tracy, headmaster at Boston University Academy—a Boston University-funded prep school—abolish its two-year old Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The students of the Academy and Boston University alike have decried the elimination of the GSA as another example of Boston University’s conservative—and often controversial—ideas on education...