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Donna Coughlin, who administers the SAT in Winnetka, Ill., says the surge in "midget" test takers makes for "a brutal morning." Young kids ask endless questions, do more fidgeting, need more bathroom breaks and are more apt to throw...
...license is far from the only place this works. Consider this column, for instance. I can't promise facts; but you need only read a few lines of text before, gracing the page, is my grainy glamour shot. Beside it, my name and title proxy for zipcode (60093), hometown (Winnetka), birthdate (Sept...
...Gore/Lieberman: Milwaukee, Chicago, Winnetka...
Situated in Winnetka, where last year the median sale price for a house was $515,000, New Trier regularly sends 95% of its graduates to four-year colleges, many of them the same elite institutions that produced the lawyers, doctors and corporate executives who live here in large part because of the excellent school system. New Trier offers its students--85% white, 12% Asian, 2% Hispanic and 1% African American--everything from international relations and classical Greek to operatic choir and gourmet food. At New Trier, there's nothing called gym class or phys ed; it's kinetic wellness...
...broken--possession of marijuana, for instance--charges are filed by Scott Harty, a Winnetka police officer permanently assigned to the school. For amounts less than 10 grams, that can mean a minor fine under a village ordinance; for more or for dealing, kids land in county court. "I don't give warnings," Harty says. The friend-to-friend commerce is hard to infiltrate, he says, so a bust "really puts blood in the water" as kids try to figure out whether someone was "narked" on. But Harty has been around long enough to know that many kids...