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In the courtroom, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is all about the First Amendment, but freedom of speech flies out the window when a high school newspaper wants to write about him. On October 28th, Kennedy gave a talk at the fancy Upper East Side Dalton School, and naturally the school's paper, The Daltonian, sent a reporter to cover the event. But Kennedy's handlers insisted on approving the article before it was published, and the article didn't make it into that week's edition, forcing The Daltonian to print an embarrassing editor's note: "We are not able to cover the recent visit by a Supreme Court justice due to numerous publication constraints." (Luckily for them, they weren't scooped by their competitors at Loyola's paper, The Blazer!)

Forget about swine flu, the kids at Dalton are suffering from shortness. The fancy pants Upper East Side school is filled with boys battling the problem. The cause: being a child. The cure: parents armed with growth hormones. The NY Post reports on a few of the kids — one, Jeffrey, went on the Humatrope hormone at age 10. In just five years he shot up from 4'1" to 5'7" ... and still has hopes of growing more. One expert told the paper the designer drug is like "Miracle-Gro for kids."

There are some new details coming to light following yesterday's incident at the Dalton School, where a 17-year-old allegedly jumped to his death. While the Post is withholding the student's name, the Daily News reports that Theodore (Teddy) Graubard went to the empty 11th floor dance studio and "when asked by a teacher why he was there...said he wanted to look around." Minutes later he jumped, something the school's 4th graders witnessed as they were enjoying recess out on the sidewalk (the paper notes that he "nearly landed" on some of them). A security guard said he "heard a loud bang. It sounded like a gunshot. The fourth-graders were out here [and] everybody started running away from the body."

Earlier this morning reports came in of a "fatal jumper down" at East 89th Street and Park Avenue. Disturbingly, news soon followed that it was a child who jumped or fell from the roof of a school (the Post is reporting it was from an 11th floor window). Now WCBS sheds some more light on the incident, noting the deceased is a 17-year-old male who was found DOA outside of UES's Dalton School (a co-ed private school with about 1,300 students attending). No specifics as to how the fall happened have been reported, but ABC notes that the school has "closed all the shades to keep students inside the building from seeing the scene outside."