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...although freshman were eligible for the rookie of the week award this year for the first time ever, Pennsylvania sophomore defensive back Kevin Allen won the honor for his play in his first varsity start. Allen made a key interception of Dartmouth quarterback Jay Fiedler to seal the Quakers' 10-6 upset of the Big Green...
Bundles recalled her own arrival at Radcliffe from the Midwest and said that Harvard professors and officials like Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Harvard Foundation Director S. Allen Counter had been instrumental in making her feel at home...
...Haydenville, Massachusetts, Barbara Allen and Robin Juris are providing their biological children Hannah, 7, and Cody, 3, with the rural environment lacking in their former home in Oakland, California. They inseminated each other using the sperm of casual friends and took extensive, though not uncommon, legal precautions to avoid facing a custody dispute. "In our hearts we trusted these men," says Allen, "but we also wrote up a contract." The children have met their biological fathers; that word, however, is never used. Says Allen: "They are donors. They don't have a role that would approximate the real role...
...sudden vogue for stand-up comedians is based on solid Nielsen evidence. First Roseanne and later Seinfeld, Home Improvement and Martin showed that joking at the Improv can be a springboard to prime-time success. Now producers and studio executives are scouring the comedy clubs for the next Tim Allen or Martin Lawrence. "It's a feeding frenzy," says a comedy producer. "A lot of these people you might cast as the second or third lead in an ensemble. But now, the studios want to build shows around them...
Could the same fate befall Michael Jackson? "Woody Allen was Humpty Dumpty," says Guyer, "and now Michael Jackson is. They won't be put back together again. Whenever Michael Jackson pats a child's head, it will be looked at in a different way. This is reminiscent of the Salem witch trials. But we're a global village now, and the whole world is watching...