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Article: Dealing With High-Profile Delinquents.
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- Insight on the News
- Article date:
- November 30, 1998
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Covering American politics these days is like observing a schoolyard. Misbehavior abounds. Little boys will be little boys and little girls can be pains, too. I have experience in the waywardness of youth -- as we all do.
Between the ages of 7 and 12 I attended a small private academy. Shrewsbury House was located on a suburban hill about 15 miles south of London. The headmaster was a Mr. Irving. A diminutive, red-faced man, his bark made up for his shortness as did his rod-wielding right arm. And like most British private schools, Irving's establishment was rule-bound. There was a bewildering array of petty restrictions that governed our daily lives, and woe ...