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...guys except for the bells player, (but bells aren't really percussion, anyway, so we didn't count her either) would take up our station at the back of the gigantic band room where we were stragetically positioned for fraternizing and making mischief. The band teacher, enraged, literally turned scarlet as we tried our best to sabotage the rehearsals. Some days, we would intentionally play off beat; others we would go on strike and refuse to play. I had never seen anyone so irate--without a doubt our disobedience gave him a few heart tremors. I hardly need...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: My Electric Vision | 2/3/2000 | See Source »

...school chef network that many younger chefs wish to move away from. In their quest to be recognized as hip, a number of new chefs on the block have recently shifted their fashion tastes to encompass trendier pant patterns. The red hot chili peppers, rainbow fish and scarlet lobsters dotting the legs of these fledglings add a certain air of panache to the chefs' images as well as their cuisine...

Author: By A. B. Osceola, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Chef Pants | 11/18/1999 | See Source »

...kids in tow, cheering their students on and mixing and meddling with their lives in the bleachers. Walk down the halls, stop and listen in, and you can hear those moments of collision and discovery. "Some of you were complaining that the questions I was asking about The Scarlet Letter were making your brains hurt," says David Mendelson to his honors English class. "That is the goal." He is trying to take them to the point where their heads throb, because that is the point at which they learn. "If the question is easy, I have failed." Maybe high school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week In The Life Of A High School | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...topic is Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Even the avid students in this honors U.S. studies class are drowsy. They have just watched a jolly but interminable student video about the colonial South, and English teacher David Mendelson sympathizes with their plight: "I feel like my brain has been sandpapered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tuesday: 9:40 A.M. U.S. Studies | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...women as possible Lieserls, including a melodramatic Berlin actress who claimed in the 1930s to be Einstein's daughter. Zackheim's final conclusions, however--based on little more than inferences from a cryptic 1903 letter from Einstein to Mileva ("I am very sorry about what has happened to Lieserl. Scarlet fever often leaves some lasting trace behind") and vague comments about idiocy in the family by an elderly Maric descendant in the Serbian town of Kac--remain conjectural at best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Einstein's Lost Child | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

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