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...proud of the "tight ship" he runs, said that the decision "puts an element of safety and stability back into public schools," without which "no education can take place." At other schools around the country, the judgment brought more applause and, in some states, outright relief. According to Scott Thomson, executive director of the National Association of Secondary School Principals, teachers and administrators, uneasy about their rights of search, "have been looking the other way" when they sensed that something wrong was afoot...
...least a score of prior cases from Alaska to Georgia involving school searches, lower court decisions have been sending what Thomson calls "a mixed message." A Louisiana court ruled for the stricter standard of probable cause; a few other states have cast school officials in loco parentis (in the place of a parent), able to search pretty much at will. But most lower courts have presaged the Supreme Court ruling for reasonable grounds, allowing the kind of search Choplick made...
...time before they sort themselves out acoustically: at first hearing it appears that the Ordway's sound, designed by Acoustician R. Lawrence Kirkegaard of Chicago, is rich and clear, and not plagued by the spottiness and dullness that first afflicted Davies Hall and continues to mar the contemporaneous Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto...
...future because I want so much to be a success." In 1949 she won a scholarship to Manhattan's Juilliard School, where her teacher, Florence Page Kimball, economically taught her to "sing on your vocal interest, not on the principal." In 1952 she was discovered by Composer Virgil Thomson, who cast her in his opera Four Saints in Three Acts. That led to her first popular triumph, as Bess in a revival of Porgy and Bess. A great career was launched...
Contrasting Harvard and B.U., Thomson said B.U. "Is trying to move fast and is doing so successfully, Harvard's danger is complacency." He said his only problem has proved to be Boston's chronic parking shortage...