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...many parents, the quality of the charter is almost beside the point so long as their kids are out of public schools. Even parents who have been burned by charters continue to relish their right to choose. After Buzz and Samantha Koch, ages 11 and 8, spent a year in a cash-strapped charter with no playground or library, their mother Trish became a tougher customer. She shopped around, sifting through test-score data on the Internet and touring a dozen charter schools, including many that she says made her think, "I wouldn't put my dog here." Her children...
...team for the third time of her career. She hit .323 on the season and was the Crimson’s team leader with eight home runs—four of them during the course of Harvard’s remarkable run to second place at the 25-team Buzz Classic in Georgia over spring break...
Williamson hit .288 on the season and delivered two of the Crimson’s biggest hits during non-conference play—a leadoff home run in Harvard’s 3-2 upset of Illinois in the Buzz Classic semifinals and a walk-off single in the bottom of the seventh of the Crimson’s 5-4 win over Boston University that snapped an 18-game Terrier win streak...
...beautiful at the upfronts. Every old show is hot, every new one a sure hit, and every network is No. 1. The WB? No. 1 in teens! NBC? No. 1 in the rich! Through the magic of statistics, ABC is No. 1 overall--and CBS is too! Today's buzz: Smallville, the WB's teen-Superman series; on ABC, Jason Alexander's sitcom Bob Patterson and college-girl-turned-spy thriller Alias, which ABC hypes as a combination of Dark Angel and the cure for cancer. "Hype is just an acronym," Alexander tells the ad buyers. "It stands for Hope...
...Technically, Farrell isn't famous yet. Apart from a handful of film critics, hardly anybody has seen him act. Tigerland was a box office failure, bringing in a measly $140,000. But Farrell's performance, complete with spot-on Texan accent, burned him into cineast consciousness and created a buzz akin to hysteria. "It's mad. None of this was planned," says Farrell at a bar in Prague, the filming location for the World War II drama Hart's War. "I always just auditioned for jobs and hoped I did well, so I could move on to the next step...