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Morgan Freeman picked up his bullhorn and baseball bat to star in the 1989 Warner Bros. movie. Joe Clark, the uncompromising New Jersey high school principal who employed a bullhorn and baseball bat to round his students into shape en route to becoming the subject of the inspirational Morgan Freeman film Lean on Me, has died. He was 82. Clark died Tuesday after a long illness at his home in Gainesville, Florida, his family announced. Soon after taking over as head of Eastside High School in Paterson, New Jersey, Clark expelled 300 students for fighting, vandalism, abusing teachers and drug...

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<p>Joe Clark fired back at state juvenile justice officials yesterday, saying they were encouraging a possible gang uprising at the Essex County Juvenile Detention Center by criticizing him for using harsh measures to restore order to the facility.</p> <p>Clark, the facility's famously combative director, made a defiant response to a report by the Juvenile Justice Commission that accused him of using straitjackets, long-term isolation and other prohibited measures to control his detainees.</p>

Clark Supports Martin's Decision on BMD Josh Pringle Friday, March 4, 2005 Joe Clark says former Prime Minister Paul Martin did the right thing when he decided Canada would say no to participation in the U-S missile defence program. The former Conservative Prime Minister says there are too many unanswered questions about the U-S plan. Clark compared Martin's decision on Missile Defence to one former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney had to make in 1985 when he rejected a U.S. proposal to have Canada take part in its Strategic Defence Initiative.

Former Progressive Conservative leader Joe Clark says he will not join the new Conservative Party of Canada. "I will not be sitting as a member of the caucus of the new party. What's happened to us has been hard for me, obviously." "Some equate it to a death in the family, I regard it rather as the death of the family," Mr. Clark told reporters Monday. He made the announcement in Ottawa, where the Tories are holding a caucus meeting Monday in Ottawa to hash out the details of their merger with the Canadian Alliance. As well, Progressive Conservative MP...