Word: schoolyard
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...cartoonist, posing as Rall, encouraging the recipients to send in their comments on the Spiegelman piece to a lewd email address. Hellman then began spoofing outraged responses by New York print media powerhouses both real and fictional. The artless prank was exposed within days, but like a pair of schoolyard bullies the two continued to escalate the matter until Rall brought suit against Hellman for $1.5 million in damages. So to support the legal fees Hellman has put together this "Legal Action Comics." Although Hellman spins himself as a First Amendment martyr, one can safely assume that many...
...popular and another scorned? How can parents best foster social skills? What should a kid be taught about dealing with bullies, and when should a parent step in? These ques-tions are as old as families, but they're taking new form and fresh urgency in an era when schoolyard arguments too often get resolved with guns. A new book--Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children (Ballantine)--delves into these mysteries with uncommon sensitivity and intelligence...
...others ("Pretty in Pink," "Better off Dead," "Lucas," "Heathers.") As late as 1995, in "Clueless," crowd is still important. The regally popular main character, Cher, introduces a new girl to her Beverly Hills high school by pointing out each of the crowds lounging in their respective portions of the schoolyard, sequestered in their hate, as W.H. Auden once wrote of Europe's warring nations...
...anger-management courses in prison, but can Nate be properly rehabilitated growing up inside? How much should he suffer for one fatal mistake? He had been an honor student. He had been mild mannered and likeable, the kind of kid whom teachers and principals relied upon to help settle schoolyard disputes. He loved school, and he loved Barry Grunow...
...Harvard is a schoolyard bully, but instead of asking for our milk money, they are asking us to hand over our children’s education,” Mass. State representative Steven A. Tolman tells the crowd. “They are asking us to hand over our town’s future...