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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face. Students congregate at the bus stops on Broadway and Cambridge St., on the steps of the Cambridge Public Library and, most of all, under the overpass--a second story passage that connects one of the school's concrete buildings to the other. A Korean-speaking contingent sits apart from the chaos, over on the east side of the buildings; the studious head home straight away; the punks take over the bench by the school's orange front doors. Except...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day, the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face. Plain-clothes security guards watch kids pour out onto the street. On Broadway, students line up against the wall of the Gustave M. Solomons Transportation Career Center to wait for the bus. A block further east, Angelo's Pizza overflows. Alex and his friends push their way in regardless...
...wall a sign reads, "CRLS students will be served only during scheduled lunches." Last year, Rindge kids weren't allowed to even go to Angelo's because the management didn't call the school when they knew that students were skipping. Everybody still went, though. Alex and his friends sit down in the window. Two girls walk in, and the boy closest to the door calls, "Come here." The girl has long black pigtails; her tiny legs show off flared cargo pants...
...Then Crazylikes notices a bus filling with people one block back toward school. He takes off sprinting, the yellow soles of his sneakers flashing up from the pavement. As the bus pulls away from the curb, Crazylikes darts out between two parked cars and runs directly at the front of the bus, waving his arms. Alex and Jason cheer, but the bus swerves out into another lane and keeps moving. Crazylikes trudges back toward his friends. More guys come out of Angelo's. The young Spanish guy who works the counter emerges behind them and beckons Alex around...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day and the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face, most of the West Cambridge kids rush to soccer practices or piano lessons. Lunch time, on the other hand, brings them to Broadway Market. Hordes of them snatch at overpriced pastries and clog the check-out aisles. The girls wear head scarves, flared jeans, platform shoes, Adidas. The boys wear Tommy Hilfiger, fleeces, Fila...