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Texas A&M struck just eight minutes into the game. The crisp passing of forwards Juli Goin and Heather Ragsdale allowed the Aggies to weave straight through the Harvard defense. After beating the final defender, Ragsdale took an open shot at point-blank range and drilled the ball past the freshman keeper Durkin...
...There, students who ace a day of drills spend the late afternoon playing computer and board games. The stragglers get one-on-one tutoring. The pressure peaks at test time. Says Sarah Telaneus, 11: "All of a sudden your heart starts pounding and you're thinking, ?I might go blank.'" Not to worry: she and her classmates turned in scores high enough to put their teachers in line for bonuses...
...time. She set up a playpen in her office to keep Imani with her at work. Even the smallest tasks could be a trial. "Try taking a shower holding your baby in your arms," she says. She remembers talking to a student one day when her mind suddenly went blank. "I was so tired," she says. "I was an emotional wreck." Things are smoother now that Imani is nearly four and relatives are nearby to pitch in; indeed, Brennetta has applied to adopt a second child...
...problem drinkers but also dangerous. Inside the alcoholic's brain two characters are arguing. One of them blusters and pettifogs and rationalizes, in the voice of denial: "I don't really have a problem... I can stop any time I want to... I only drink because (fill in the blank...
...photographer, Walter Chin, who parked his Ferrari inside the building, told me to take my glasses off. This gave me a blank, squinty, confused look. "Perfect! Beautiful! Stay there!" he yelled, snapping away. I started to take my shirt off until he motioned me to stop. I watched a lot of Cinemax growing...