It isn't the kids'fault that San Francisco's former superintendent, Bill Rojas, performed this perfectly legal but risky financial jukestep longer and more spiritedly than any other superintendent, or that his cash-strapped board juked along so docilely.
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It helps that the child is a poker-faced little angel ( quite unlike his crude, profanity-spewing parents ) who docilely soaks up the knowledge Mildred pumps into him from a children's encyclopedia, which she reads out loud, proceeding alphabetically from the letter A.
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The moshing crowd near the stage hauled young women forward, and when Ms . Love saw them crushed near the front, she pulled them on stage with her; by the end of her set, there were about two dozen of them, sitting docilely like a talk-show audience.
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By program's end, we'll be introduced to Bowie, a muscular eastern gray who crouches low for a good neck-scratching, then rises upright, as if on cue, for a photo; Rosie, who hops straight over to two boys and docilely lets them pet her soft fur; and Teddy, whose chest smells like maple syrup.