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...been a naturalist all his life. As a prep-school student, he persuaded his father to invite a biology teacher to the Buckley home in Sharon, Conn., for the summer. The teacher came with his animals. By summer's end, there were more than 70 of them. The pupil later had his own smaller, but equally renowned zoo at Yale: one boa constrictor. Buckley has made two trips to the Arctic on scientific expeditions, and once considered becoming an ornithologist. On that, Brother William reverts to form: "Jim used to get up at 4 in the morning, when...
Yosuf, 36, lives in Seattle and is the former coach of one time Harvard great Anil Nayar. En route to the title match, teacher and pupil met in the semi-finals with the result a 15-8, 15-9, 15-11 victory for Khan...
...frames of doors and windows. Thus the content of each frame prevents a single entity: the boy swinging alone in a tree (zoom slowly out to long shot, then iris in on him), a group of hunters crossing the field as in a period painting, the teacher and his pupil as a single relationship, Itard writing by his window, Itard and boy housekeeper who together immediately form a family grouping. Each shot presents a fact, a situation. The frame shows what people do. This is a perfectly narrative style...
...justices seemed to have very much patience with lawyers for Southern school boards who argued earnestly that pupil assignments should be "color-blind," based only on "proximity and convenience." Implicit in the court's previous decisions has been the idea that since assignments based on race created segregation, they can now be used to dismantle it. But the Administration's modest view of how much desegregation is necessary seemed to win some sympathy from Justice Harry Blackmun as well as Burger. Justice Hugo Black, long a staunch advocate of rapid desegregation, hinted that he was now skeptical...
...recruits is Billy, a brilliant student who once volunteered to tutor a slow-reading black pupil named Joe. Gradually he comes to realize that he is merely coaching Joe up to the level where the Army can use him. Billy, who will be used himself - he will serve the state as a scientist if he stays straight - joins the Indians instead...