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...extremely proud of this team," said Peckham. "We had a tough row to hoe and caught a couple of bad breaks, and next year we will do better...
Thomas Jefferson High is a stolid red-orange-brick block of building set down in an East New York neighborhood of boarded-up row houses. In the past four years, 70 students have been killed, shot, stabbed or permanently injured on the school grounds. According to a report prepared for the New York state assembly and quoted by the New York Daily News, 50% of the 1,900 students have some kind of puncture wound on their body at any given time. "T.J." has a "grieving room," where the students can seek peace and quiet and counseling when these things...
...have a tough row to hoe. We are more of a tournament team than a duel meet team," Peckham said optimistically. "If we wrestle well, we could end up in the middle of the pack...
...headquarters that would once have chilled the blood now costs $30 a head. An interview with the former head of Soviet intelligence is offered for $600, and the space program's director of mission control is available for $200; $1,000 will buy time with a prisoner on death row. The Defense Ministry charges $1,500 for pictures of nuclear sites. And low-grade classified information can be purchased from a Yekaterinburg firm that specializes in defense enterprises; both ex-Soviet and foreign clients...
Often the dialogue ends with some sort of Marxist summation. In pre-med row, for example, a spiral of obscenities draws this comment: "Manifestations of anger in response to an oppressive university and society...