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A nationally recognized fifth-grade teacher in Los Angeles was suspended after telling his students that if they didn't raise enough money for the annual Shakespeare play, they might have to perform naked, like the king in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "We overreact to everything," said Rafe Esquith, a winner of the National Medal of Arts. "That's the American way."
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