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Deerfield Coach Jim Lindsay was making out lines during practice before the 1998 season and forgot to assign his leading scorer--Tyler Kolarik--to a unit. Lindsay looked at his roster and saw only two available forwards, Chip Canner and a large, gangly kid named Robert Fried who had seen only spot minutes at the varsity level the previous season. Heck, Lindsay thought, Kolarik and Fried were roommates, maybe these wingers have some potential together...
Often coaches assign homework to be done between calls. If someone is having trouble managing finances, he might be asked to keep a diary of expenses. If a salesperson is seeking to improve performance, she might have to make a set number of cold calls that week. Burned-out overachievers may be advised to "get a massage or lie in a hammock for an hour," reports Lynn Nodland, a coach in Excelsior, Minn...
...live-in caretaker for a little boy who, like Zachary, suffered from an autism-related disorder. He loved dresses, jewelry, feather boas, glitter makeup and other things considered "feminine." Still, his parents and I were careful not to assign a gender to his activities, as he had not yet done so himself. I only hope Zachary wasn't rushed into his decision by parents who seem to have numerous other issues of their own they need to deal with first. SARA SCHROEDER Newton, Mass...
...know, for a documented fact, just what (and how much) a politician thinks of him or herself. But it is a brand of honesty that is terribly undignified, one that to me is most familiar in President Clinton's own constant musing about the fate that history will assign...
...spearheading the program, which will assign participants concentrating in science a mentor from their department...