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...Kriss and Midwest Bureau Chief Christopher Ogden, who covered the Carter Administration as White House and State Department correspondent. The four-hour interview began in his wood-paneled home-town office just off the main street of Plains, Ga., and concluded on the sunny back patio of his modest brick ranch house a few blocks away. Afterward, Carter went right to work polishing up the inaugural lecture he was to present the next day as a professor at Emory University...
Until Saturday, the Harvard women's volleyball team had been performing like a finely tuned, sleek and sophisticated imported automobile. But at Williams, the spikers--zipping along at about 60 m.p.h.--lost control of the wheel and smashed into a brick wall. And that's when Crimson Coach Karyn Altman realizd that it was time for an overhaul...
...many small farming communities the ripple effect is wrenching. In Melbourne, Iowa (pop. 500), a 100-year-old town halfway between Chicago and Omaha, the brick fronts on Main Street were dog-eared before the current recession. But the pervasive gloom is something new. "Our vital signs are not very good in this town," says Gary Northrup, vice president of Melbourne Savings Bank. "Melbourne's best days may be behind it. Farmers have no money to spend. When they hurt, the town dies a little...
Opening day! In front of the brick dormitory, the dust-streaked family car lurches to a halt with its load of indispensable college supplies: one Sony stereo with headphones, two gooseneck lamps, five pairs of blue jeans, two down parkas (one old, one new), one pair of Rossignol skis ... and one nervous freshman wondering whether anybody will like him. The older students have an easier time of it, needing only to unpack what they left in storage over the summer: more lamps, more blue jeans, boots, bicycles, one unused thesaurus donated by an out-of-date uncle .. . And now, from...
Sixteen hundred successful high school students checked into 16 unfamiliar brick buildings last weekend and thereby offered themselves up to an outrageous number of emotional slings and arrows. Between now and June, they can count on undergoing many, if not all, of a sequence of trials peculiar to that single nine-month period, in roughly chronological order...