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...tangible as an Olympic sprinter's speed. "He was always the brightest in his classes," says Chen Chia-cheng, his sixth-grade teacher. "He used to finish his homework for the night before lunchtime." His classmates recall a studious, diminutive boy, annoyingly prim, his hand shooting up to provide correct answers to teachers' queries. "He never picked a fight," says Chen Wen-chuan, an elementary-school classmate who still lives in the township, "because he knew he would lose if he did." He was the kind of student whose academic reputation preceded him wherever he went: he was first...
...stopping passion you felt the first month you fell in love with your partner, I do know this: there are many of us who settle for predictability when we could have more excitement; friendship when we could have intimacy; medical problems that kill our sex life when we can correct them; and the status quo when we could have a relationship that is constantly evolving and renewing itself...
Repeat offender: He may not be environmentally correct, but George W. Bush sure does love recycling...
...April 17, we reported that three student publications, including The Crimson, were investigating a student for plagiarism. Before the article ran, administrators, friends and colleagues close to the student repeatedly entreated us not to run it. They argued we had fulfilled our responsibility to our readers to correct her dishonesty—The Crimson had already retracted the four articles we believed were not entirely her own work, and she had resigned her editorship of The Crimson as well as her membership in several other publications...
BRAIN TEASER What sordid scandal that took place in Seattle became part of a test question for high school students across Washington? The question on a new standardized test did not concern state history but rather logic. Students were challenged to map the correct route between fictitious towns. Clever 10th-graders who marked the right answer (C) traveled from Mayri, went through Clay and Lee and ended up in Turno. Eureka! Mary K. Letourneau, the elementary school teacher who seduced her 13-year-old former student and later had two children by him, one while she was serving time...