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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until recently, he was right. A 15-year-old ninth-grader, Lance had been declared "emotionally conflicted," and was shielded from expulsion by federal laws that protect children with disabilities. But last April he went too far. On a school bus full of children, he punched a teacher's aide and threatened to grab the steering wheel and cause a wreck. District Attorney David Whetstone sued the boy in civil court, describing him as a "clear and present danger," and persuaded a state judge to bar him from all Alabama public schools. "It was a little creative," says Whetstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is This the Meanest Kid in All of Alabama? | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...October of 1997, three young actors went into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, to play in a horror movie. Twenty-two months later, their film was a smash...and the talk not just of Hollywood but of America. You could hardly walk down a bustling street last week or log on to a website without tripping over that ominous incantation "Blair Witch." The impact, sudden and seismic, of The Blair Witch Project is utterly unprecedented. Never has a--let's be honest--weird movie budgeted at a ludicrously low $35,000 stormed both the box office and the national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blair Witch Craft | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...Richard C. Marius Prize in Expository Writing went to Haiwen Chu '02. His essay was entitled "Why Reread? Freedom, Flaubert, and a Parrot...

Author: By Kirsten G. Studlien, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student's Essays Win Cash Prizes From Expos | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard's labor disputes reached a happy ending this week, as picket lines disbanded and the striking members of a local union went to work for a new contractor...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Workers' Strike Resolved | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Work on the Conant Hall project stopped two weeks ago after Everett Decorator's workers went on strike, claiming that five of the company's employees had been fired for leading a unionization effort...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Yard Workers' Strike Resolved | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

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