The collection, named "BJ Kicks A, " veered from the high school dance party looks that she has championed for decades, running toward a junior high school gym class with a lot of cheek.

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When my junior high civics class needed a chaperone, it was my dad who volunteered to drive the van to Washington, DC (although he did get us lost and he held my boyfriend over the toilet, but those are posts for another day).

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Everything changed in the spring of his junior year, when on a lark he took a class about clay.

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During Mr. Ryan's junior year as an undergraduate at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, he took a class with a professor named Rich Hart, an outspoken and engaging libertarian with a bust of Elvis Presley in his office and an arresting contempt for the direction his university has taken over the past 20 years.

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And many middle and upper-middle class families think that it will impress admission officers if junior has volunteered at a local hospital or participated in some summer program abroad.

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We had some junior sunbeams, down there at Davidson College and a professor who saw the potential value in such a class.

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On Feb 2, 1996, a 14-year-old boy walked into his Moses Lake, Washington, Junior High School algebra class and started shooting.

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