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Stuyvesant High School

Stuyvesant High School, the Ultimate Meritocracy

A CLASS APART: PRODIGIES, PRESSURE AND PASSION INSIDE ONE OF AMERICA’S BEST HIGH SCHOOLSBy 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 competition for Read More

Asa Julian Paparo

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

Asa Julian Paparo

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 media” Read More