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...brief John Woo tribute, slow motion as doves flutter around a thug. In addition to cameos by Drew Pinsky (MTV's Dr. Drew) and Bob Saget (the girls' dad on Full House), we get to observe the mortification of some fine comic actors: Eugene Levy as a truant officer who thinks he's Dirty Harry, Andrea Martin as a Senator, Andy Richter as a klutzy villain and Darrell Hammond as the hapless victim of the twins' artless physical comedy...
...Nationals and join the L.P.G.A. golf tour, she cleared a path for Arthur Ashe, Tiger Woods and the Williams sisters. (Her advice to Venus before she became the first black woman since Gibson to win Wimbledon, in 2000: "Move your feet.") Yet the former Harlem street truant shied away from her designated role as barrier breaker. She remained cool, a bit skeptical of her fame, preferring to focus on what she loved most: winning. Of her status as a rebel turned world champion, she said, with typical understatement, "Ain't that a blip?" --By Harriet Barovick
Although many high schools denied her entrance because she was truant, in 1997 Murray enrolled at the Humanities Preparatory School, a new progressive public school in downtown Manhattan...
...dodge tests of their own. But they aren’t avoiding that routine American history exam or multiplication quiz. Instead, American students are increasingly opting out of taking standardized tests, now mandated by the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind act. These students playing truant are decreasing the number of student standardized test-takers, and casting doubt on the effectiveness of the core mechanism of Bush’s education initiative...
...HUPD stopped and interviewed four students from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) at the back of Greenough Hall. The group was turned over to CRLS truant officers...