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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some parents hope their kids will win a college scholarship. Single mother Mar Rodriguez of Orlando, for example, is a graduate student at the University of Central Florida. Money is tight. She shuttles her three kids--Virgil, 14; Eva, 13; and Sara, 10--to dozens of youth-basketball events every week, year round. In a recent month, Rodriguez counted only three days without a practice or a game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The Crazy Culture Of Kids Sports | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...recent Thursday evening, Roberta got her yearly opportunity to demand respect for her students. About 175 empty violin cases were stacked against the walls of the gym at Central Park East I elementary school, and their young owners, ages 5 and up, formed neat rows on the basketball court. They shifted nervously, awaiting their cue to enter the packed auditorium. "When you get onstage, fix your feet and your bows!" yelled Roberta. "Who do you watch? Your mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maestro Of East Harlem | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...hurly-burly of the Biennale, Hamilton's meditative rooms are like church pews amid the roar of Grand Central Terminal. The opening crowds jostled inside the pavilion, drowning the whispering voice, wrecking the peaceful atmosphere. How could divinity alight at rush hour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Codes And Whispers | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...HAMBURG Independent, Wyoming Resume: 3rd Infantry Division in Korea, house painter Relevant experience: Lists nine children, including "one in Japan and two unknown" Platform: Stop illegal-alien invasions from Mexico and Central America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Kooky Kandidates | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...same place ? as an opposition rally. Although only a few dozen Milosevic supporters showed up to confront the 4,000 opposition protestors, the move reveals Milosevic's strategy for coping with popular discontent. "Slobo wants some heads broken in confrontations between his supporters and opponents," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "Then he?ll step forward, playing on the fear of civil war in Serbia, and present himself as the only person capable of ensuring peace. It?s the strategy he?s pursued throughout the region over the past decade, only now he?s applying it at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Slobo to Opponents: Let's Take This Outside | 7/8/1999 | See Source »

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