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No Comment Values Lesson I An A.P. story from Inkster. Michigan: "Getting a D-minus in class is nothing to be proud of, but neither is losing 55-0. So the Inkster, Michigan, school district has...
...Beating Back Juvenile Crime An item in The Washington Post datelined Columbia, South Carolina: "An eleven-year-old honor student who packed a knife in her lunch box to cut a piece of chicken was suspended and arrested on charges of bringing a weapon to school...
...Unfortunately, actions like this do sort of tarnish that focus.'" Diamonds Forever An A.P...
...They cost $1,900 to $10,000...
...She asked a teacher if it was OK to use it and was told 'no' and got a lecture...
...Our previous policy destroyed sports at Inkster...
...D.J...
...Each handcrafted pendant is hollow and can be filled with the cremated remains of the departed...
...Moore, seventeen, a student who is not in the band...
...T was too upset.' As she was leaving school with her father, she was arrested...
...Dole's criticism gets a silent reception...
...Values Lesson II From the sports page of the Chicago Tribune: "The Pittsburgh Penguins and the TV station that airs their games have sold ads for fights during the games...
...So the Inkster, Michigan, school district has decided to lower its academic standards for student-athletes, abandoning after just three years a policy that allowed them to play sports only if they passed six classes with a C or better...
...Because of the higher standards, the Inkster baseball team had to forfeit its 1993 season, and this year's football team, with only fifteen eligible players, is 1-6...
...Sweetser insists the momentum is there...
...SportsChannel is looking at the idea for Blackhawks games...
...He began arguing with judges, saying his musicians deserved first place...
...Last Days From a story in the Boston Globe, datelined Franken-muth, Michigan, on the last days of the campaign: Dole "lashes Clinton relentlessly for taking foreign contributions for his campaign and party...
...Submissions cannot be acknowledged or returned...
...Anyone who thinks it works is brain-dead...
...But I didn't eat a lot,' she said...
...And she said people shouldn't think the staff shuffle is a sign that rats are deserting a sinking ship: 'There are a bunch of other rats lining up to jump on board.'" Readers are invited to submit No Comment items...
...The lockets are made of fourteen-carat gold and can be encrusted with diamonds...
...When a weapon is found, the police have to be called.'" Law and Order Lives An item in The Washington Post on the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom's Awards dinner for leaders "who act in the Nixonian spirit of enlightened pragmatism in foreign policy": This year's recipient is "none other than that champion of democracy and human rights, the inimitable Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore...
...You don't kill the victim to make the system work...
...True fact...
...Truth in Politics From a story in the Vermont Free Press: "Congressional candidate Susan Sweetser has shuffled her top staff members, in a move that might breathe new life into a campaign marred by missteps and resignations...
...That's not fair to the kids," superintendent Jim Rutter said...
...Please send original clippings or photocopies and give name and date of publication...
...Why should foreign influence have any influence at all in an election'?' Dole asks a crowd that includes a group of men wearing lederhosen...
...said Jefferson administrators had promised to make this the year of 'respect, responsibility, and integrity.' 'They wanted to make this sort of the year of ethics,' Moore said...
...Most Valuable?__ From an article in The Washington Post: "When the second-place award was presented to the marching band from Fairfax's prestigious Thomas Jefferson High School at a statewide competition, band leader Kent Baker didn't accept it with a song in his heart...
...She was later suspended...
...Terry Dieterle, a funeral-home owner from Aurora, Illinois, was showing off his cremation jewelry...
...Say It Ain't So An item in Environmental Compliance Alert, an industry newsletter, on an EPA request that firms disclose their use of toxic chemicals: "That's certain to increase the pressure on your firm to voluntarily . . . use fewer toxic chemicals...
...In front of hundreds of students and parents...
...Tickets are only $1,000 a seat or $10,000 a table, so hurry on down...
...Maybe as a special bonus you can watch a caning...
...Charlotte then tried to eat her lunch, tearing the chicken with her fingers...
...But here in this village, with his bus parked between Frankenmuth Bavarian Inn and Zehnder's 'Famous Chicken Dinners' restaurant...
...Capitalist Spirit Herbert Lanese, president of McDonnell Douglas's aerospace division, quoted in Labor Notes commenting on job-security demands by striking workers: "Job security is anathema to the free-enterprise system...
...The band's other director, Phil Simon, forty-nine, wasn't the picture of grace, either...
...Baker, thirty-one, threw the gleaming trophy in a trash can...
...Superintendent Don Henderson said the school followed policy...
...When players drop the gloves, announcers call the fight the 'Arby's beef of the game,' and the fast-food franchise's logo comes on the screen in a box surrounding the scrap...
...The sixth-grader said she never took the knife out of her lunch box...
...story datelined Cincinnati: "At a recent National Funeral Directors Association trade show, companies flaunted the latest in the death business...
...Mom was busy, and dad had gone to work,' Charlotte Kirk said, explaining how she packed the smooth-edged knife with her leftover peas, chicken, and apple on October 18...
Vol. 60 • December 1996 • No. 12
