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This high school, which still thinks of itself and is still viewed as a removed Ivory Tower, was intrinsically a part of the outside world from which it sought to be separate. In having the "real world" intrude so pervasively on it, the school realized its responsibility as an educator to help shape the community around it by helping to shape the thinking and concerns of the people who would one day leave its gates. It started a host of new support networks and adopted a more flexible, compassionate approach to help students with new problems instead of categorically denying...
...about its origins, but never learn the truth. Crimson Key tour guides may mention the lion-turtle (actually a dragon), but tend to concentrate on more mundane tales of John Harvard and "the statue of the three lies." The history of Harvard's buildings--the exterior of the Ivory Tower--is all too often lost among the cliches...
Commercially, HIStory can't miss, though its hefty cost -- a list price of $32.98, which may be discounted by as much as $10 in some stores -- could be an impediment to megasales. Russ Solomon, head of Tower Records, asks, "What ordinary high school kid is going to shell out 25 bucks unless they want it awfully bad?" Still, early indications are good. Scream hit No. 5 on the Billboard singles chart in its first week-the highest debut for a single ever. Says Mike Shallet of SoundScan, which tracks music sales: "Naysayers are going to be surprised. There...
...women's tower is usually pretty wide open," Jacobson says. "Basically, everybody has a shot...
...people I know. Nonetheless,there are a lot of reasons why she suceeds here.It's not like polar opposites: Tracey andHarvard," her housemate says. "My sense is thatshe doesn't buy into a lot of things that mostpeople do--the kind of insular view of the worldthough the Ivory Tower." Wizansky adds, "She talksabout being alienated a lot but she's been able tomanuever well and get stuff...