1.   Maguire, matter of fact, is much like the class clown who sits three bar stools away watching the game.

2.   Leman was the youngest of ten children - a show-off and a class clown.

3.   He is always the class clown and his teachers say he is incorrigible.

4.   Always the class clown, he initially focused on athletics and business ventures while a teen and in college.

5.   A native Midwesterner who grew up attending Catholic schools, Farley was a troublemaker as a child -- the class clown who would do anything for a laugh.

6.   Afraid of retaliation, he seeks popularity by becoming the class clown.

7.   Alas, that re-enforced my status as class clown and set in motion a sort of destiny.

8.   But the die was cast long before, in about first grade, when it was still the fashion to pillory the class clown.

9.   Can a change of paint increase test scores, or carpeting make a math whiz out of the class clown?

10.   Can a simple change of paint increase test scores, or carpeting make a math whiz out of the class clown?