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Game over for students in Attleboro, Mass., who yelled "You're it!" one final time at Willett Elementary School last week. The school has forbidden tag--as well as touch football and all other "chase" games--during recess, a move that made national headlines. As in schools from South Carolina to Wyoming that have implemented similar bans recently, Attleboro administrators cite fears that children could get hurt and their parents might sue. According to some parents, another factor was concern that such games could hurt self-esteem if, say, one kid were always...
...Attleboro ban drew instant criticism--and not just from playground libertarians and young players. "It's not the right route to take," says Charlene Burgenson, executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education, who believes tag is "exactly the type of activity that is appropriate at recess." It won't harm kids "physically or psychologically," she says, and argues that the exercise could even help, given the rising rates of obesity among young people...
...Kirkland.” And the figure in that portrait bears a striking resemblance to the sitter in American painter Gilbert Stuart’s 1816 portrait of then-Harvard President John Thornton Kirkland, Class of 1789. Though the auction house estimated a $200 to $400 price tag for the Kirkland portrait, the item ultimately sold...
...more extreme case of the Russell Field bus shelter, where the act seemed violent, she said that she did contact the police, but she adds that the majority of the vandalism that they deal with is very minor, such as smaller pieces of the art being broken, or small tags being painted on them.WHERE IS THE LINE?When Smith-McNally started working as conservator in 1998, she says that most damage she encountered seemed unintentional, or at least benign. But the situation has changed—she readily notes the five-year rise in vandalism.Despite this trend, she adds that...
...We’ve always carried the skull tie. Some people wear it for corporate raiding. It’s also an old medical symbol.” An important clarification: “But it has nothing to do with pirates.” The price tag on the Ivy League look is high. If Daddy doesn’t work at Goldman Sachs, window-shopping may be as close as you can get. “[Undergrads] may not all afford it, but when they can, they come back,” Black says, before turning away...