New York City: smells like geek spirit.(FRONT & CENTER)(Victoria Martin: Math Team Queen)(Brief article)
American Theatre, February, 2007 by Gener, Randy
SO THE STAKES ARE EXCEEDINGLY high--life and death, practically.
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See, Vickie will get detention if she doesn't join the all-male high school math team. But if she admits to kicking butt in math, she'll be tagged as a grade-A nerd. This would be a catastrophic situation, since Vickie hangs with the cheerleading crowd and has become, by default, the third most popular sophomore at Longwood High.
Thing is, Vickie has this habit of reciting the random digits of pi with unnerving accuracy. And the senior jock, who is totally varsity first string, is ...
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