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New York City is in the middle of Fashion Week, and last night was Ralph Lauren's 40th anniversary as a designer. And, as Style.com reports, he "staged an extraordinarily lavish runway show and black-tie after-party in the Central Park Conservancy" last night. It was such a big deal that Mayor Bloomberg and his lady friend Diana Taylor stepped out! New York magazine's Show & Talk blog wrote this:

Ralph himself seemed blasé. Standing by an unruly, high-spurting fountain (it was spraying guests), he dismissed the idea that he picks special models as openers: His entire shows, he told us, are filled with “the most beautiful models in the world.” Would he be seeing any other shows this week? “No. No one invited me.” (Good thing he threw a party for himself.) But no one beat Matthew Broderick in the “oh-whatever” department: “I don’t know anything about this stuff,” he said, going on to say that even so, he saw the Valentino show in Italy during his summer vacation. How did it compare Mr. Lauren's event? Valentino “was by the Coliseum, which is pretty exciting. This is Central Park.” Touché.

It's yet another case of kids behaving badly - and then putting it on the Internet. Someone recorded a Bronx sophomore being beaten by a gang and then put the video on YouTube. The CW News at 11 spoke to students at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx who were there during the March 15 fight (select the video "Follow up to violent gang web video"). The students said that the sophomore was beaten after being mistakenly targeted for saying something to a girl who had been throwing acorns at students heading to the subway.

NY1 has a good look at the differing rules for cell phone use at two very different public schools in the Bronx. One is DeWitt Clinton High School, where classes are frequently overcrowded and there are metal detectors at the entrance. The other is Bronx High School of Science, the magnet school whose has seven Nobel Prize-winning (in physics) graduates.

- we think those kids are just into that text messaging business. But the screening procedures, which include checking open beverage containers, sound like a necessary pain. The protest became dramatic (at least on news footage) when a couple students were arrested, some for disorderly conduct and one for assaulting an officer, but the principal felt the protests were peaceable.

Students at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx protested the use of metal detectors at their school. And they will not be able to leave school for lunch because there won't be enough time for security to check them. Crime at DeWitt Clinton had risen in recent years, leading to the Department of Education to install the controversial metal detectors during the 2003-2004 school year, which students say delay them from getting into school by up to an hour. Not to mention "dangerous overcrowding" in the cafeteria during lunchtime.