Take a moment and reflect on your childhood. Did you ever lie about being sick to get out of school? I sure did. I guess that many of you did well as well. Once we hit the working world, this excuse ...

John Edwards, 17, had never before played hooky, but “on impulse” one day last week, the senior at Manhasset (N.Y.) High School slipped off with a pal to the U.N. building in Manhattan. There they got ...