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...Club last Friday night. Back in his hometown once more, the legendary jazz drummer offered glimpsed memories of growing up in the city. At the age of seven, he was entranced by the lady next-door playing Gershwin on Sunday nights. As a teenager, he was sent to the principal??s office in Roxbury Memorial High for drumming incessantly on his desk. At 20 years of age, he collected a letter inviting him to join Luis Russell’s band at the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. He accepted. “The rest,” said...
...when Faust called Kirschner’s office several times on July 15 and left a voicemail asking him to call her back, Kirschner said he looked at the caller ID with the apprehension of someone being called to the principal??s office...
...condition for graduating would seem to present the same onus that ostensibly invalidated the old swim test: How could students physically unable to fulfill it be forced to have their diplomas withheld? High schools and preparatory schools no doubt face this same difficulty, and one would think the principal??or, in Harvard’s case, the deans—could intercede and waive the requirement on a case-by-case basis. It would be absurd to make, or break, the rules because of an occasional exception...
...item by tedious item, set out to check them off. Hopelessly troubled rich kid expelled from private school and forced to transfer to public? Check. A beating on the first day by a tattooed punk with a mohawk? Check. Love affair with the beautiful (but feisty!) principal??s daughter? Subsequent power struggle with said principal for remainder of the movie? Film resolves in boy overcoming his family issues, getting the girl, and befriending his former enemy, none other than that first-day-of-school bully? Check, check, and check.The title character Charlie, played by Anton Yelchin...
Frank W. Marlowe, an anthropology professor at Florida State University and an author on the study, said that the “handicap principal?? may play a part in the results...