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Comic relief seems to be the last thing on the mind of teens like Michael Teng, who just graduated from high school in Palo Alto, Calif., and worked 40 hours a week last summer as a computer programmer. "If you are a student who is anticipating applying to selective colleges," he says, "it really isn't acceptable to do nothing." Tony Bialorucki, 18, of Toledo, Ohio, was a caddy before trading in his golf clubs for a toolbox last summer to help build an orphanage in Guatemala. "I didn't want to work in a mall or a restaurant...
Detroit's reputation as a tough, working-class city also gives its performers credibility in the rap world. Eminem's bad-boy poses on his album The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/Interscope) seem more believable because he hails from the Detroit area rather than, say, Palo Alto, Calif...
...wonder that these guys were finally deemed ready for their close-up? And can a David E. Kelley dramedy set in some com start-up in Palo Alto be more than a couple of pilot seasons away? The millennium approaches, and--we swear, after this we'll retire the line forever--the geeks have indeed inherited the earth...
...some students and professors say HLS has far to go in bringing the institution as a whole to the level of its competitors in New Haven or Palo Alto...
...robust quality of his singing is helping lay to rest a silly but persistent cliche: that real men don't sing alto. For years countertenors were kidded about the presumed implications of their sky-high voices. (Deller is said to have been confronted backstage once by a German fan who asked, "You are eunuch, yes?" to which the singer allegedly replied, "I think perhaps you mean unique, madam.") And in the '50s and '60s, when rumors of homosexuality could still kill a career, many went out of their way to stress their manliness. But times have changed, and Daniels makes...