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...want to go to college to become a doctor," the high school pupil told the researchers. Why? "Basically so I can make some money and then take it easy." A college student described her priority as "having a job when you get out." As for broad scholarship that might expand one's vision or values, another student declared: "I'm not interested in hearing about the professor's Ph.D. dissertation...
...John's Moore excelled in English and wasa prize pupil of Brother Santoro's acclaimed highschool company, which won statewide "mini-academyawards" in repeated drama festivals. As a kid herecalls loving disaster movies and wanting toactually "play the Towering Inferno," and hismother says he annually staged a backyard pick-upplay, the way other kids would organize astreet-wide round of touch football...
...early appearance in a black sweater, with the characteristic level stare, in 1957; by 1972, in Blue Umbrella No. 2, she is a creature of formidable glamour, radiating a Monica Vitti-esque wistfulness in the rain (the slightly blurred expression is given by the three highlighted dots on each pupil), her pink and red scarf an homage to Bronzino, a raindrop neatly mimicking a tear on her cheek. Katz can also be very good at holding large areas of color in strict, hushed equilibrium (the "abstract" side of his work); two of the best paintings in this show...
...three firms hire only certified teachers, many of them moonlighting at about $6-$10 an hour; and none permits a pupil-to-teacher ratio of more than 3 to 1. "We're doing all the things the schools would do if they could afford it," says Paula Singer, a vice president at Reading Game. Public school people agree. "There's no way public schools can match the attention given to just three students at a time," says Joseph Condon, assistant superintendent of the Ocean View school district in Huntington Beach, Calif., where Reading Game has its headquarters...
...Hampshire, England, 46 children were kept home from the Scantabout primary school when their parents found out that a fellow pupil was a nine-year-old hemophiliac who had been exposed to the AIDS virus. Officials insisted that the child stay in school, and eventually the parents relented...