Why he did it: PFGBest Founder Russell R. Wasendorf, who was arrested last week on allegations that his futures brokerage was missing more than $200 million in client segregated funds, wrote that he misappropriated funds to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements, according to The Wall Street Journal. (Sort of like the Stuyvesant High Read More
Every month, there’s some new scandal over at the uber-prestigious Stuyvesant High School. Last month, the young ladies of the math and science public school held a “Slutty Wednesday” to protest the dress code that denied them the right to wear booty shorts and mini-skirts to home room.
Later that month, over 50 students were implicated in a ring that cheated on the state’s Regents exams, using their cell phones to pass around a photocopied version of the test and swapping answers. Today, justice was served…at least partially…on a radio program announcing the possible punishment of these 2.0 sneaks. Read More
A CLASS APART: PRODIGIES, PRESSURE AND PASSION INSIDE ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST HIGH SCHOOLS
By Alec Klein
Simon & Schuster, 323 pages, $25
Every fall, 20,000-plus eighth graders with cowlicks or ponytails and an abnormal share of pocket protectors take the most important test of their lives—the Stuyvesant exam. Nothing else matters in Read More
March 25, 2006
1:23 p.m.
7 pounds, 10 ounces
Beth Israel Hospital
“I would have been weirded out if I had a little blond baby,” said Dorie Lederfajn Paparo, content director at the interactive marketing agency Greater Than One, of her dark-haired firstborn son with her husband of three years, Ari Paparo, director of “rich Read More
Since my freshman year at Stuyvesant High School in 1975, I’ve been getting my hair cut at Frank’s on Spring Street. It’s an unassuming barbershop just east of Sixth Avenue, complete with a revolving red, white and blue pole and metal folding chairs out front for the locals to gossip in Italian as they Read More
