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...female weight lifters, and that scary New Zealand softball pitcher. Here at the games the athletes are an untouchable clique unto themselves, although when you actually manage to get close enough to talk to one of them, they turn out to be just as dull as they were in 11th grade...
...particular, senior Mary Unsworth will be counted upon to lead the team. Unsworth placed 11th out of about 250 runners at the Fordam Invitational last weekend, improving upon her 33rd-place finish last year...
...11th hour last week, the Palestinian leader and Israeli prime minister decided to remain at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains, to see if they could reach an agreement that ended their 52-year-old conflict. An exhausted Bill Clinton flew to Okinawa early Thursday morning to keep his date with the G-8 economic summit, leaving Secretary of State Madeleine Albright behind to see if she could keep the two sides inching closer to an agreement until he returned this coming week...
...operation running smoothly because "I can't find enough people who can multiply seven times four." Nor can he readily recruit young executives from outside the area after they learn that the state put Osceola's school district on "academic distress" two years ago, when only 33% of 11th-graders could read at grade level, and only 8% were up to par in math...
Tony Earley's first novel, Jim the Boy (Little, Brown; 227 pages; $23.95), blithely and successfully counters this trend. It covers a year in the life of Jim Glass Jr., from his 10th to 11th birthdays, in the tiny hamlet of Aliceville, N.C., during the mid-1930s. His father died of a heart attack a week before Jim was born, and he has been raised by his mother and her three bachelor brothers, Zeno and the twins Coran and Al. When the book opens, Jim has never traveled more than 30 miles from Aliceville. What he doesn't know about...