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From the beginning, since Little League in a suburb of Atlanta, Charlie Santos-Buch has been a winner. Sure, he's got a lot of natural athletic ability. He has enough ability to have garnered all-state honors on the parallel bars at a Darien, Conn., junior high and to have excelled in several sports through high school...
...likely to move its headquarters? The answer, surprisingly, is not some place in the Sunbelt but just 30 miles or so away, Connecticut's Fairfieid County. Long famed as tony bedroom communities for high-paid commuters to the corporate canyons of New York City, such towns as Greenwich, Darien and Westport have become boardroom communities for many of those same bosses: they have brought their offices closer to their homes...
...county fills up, it is developing some of the problems that the companies moved there to escape. Partly because of rising traffic congestion, Greenwich has placed tight limits on how much land can be zoned for business use, and Darien has imposed a moratorium on commercial construction...
While this might very well be the best women's tennis team in Harvard/Radcliffe history, maybe even the best in New England this spring, it has yet to reach Princeton's class. "In fact," says Pierpont, a Darien, Conn. product, "I chose Harvard over Princeton because I knew I had no shot at making Princeton's tennis team." As a result, Harvard has the opportunity to take advantage of what Pierpont--and her talented classmates--have to offer. Maybe we should all take a deep breath...
...only in Darien but all across the country, and indeed the world, that old-time religion is being recycled with ever increasing zeal. Countless people like Lee Buck were brought up to think that revivalism is the province of faith healers, holy rollers and counterfeit preachers?a thing of bad taste, or bad theology, or both ?and just possibly a sign of simple-mindedness or galloping hypocrisy as well. Yet there they are today, down on their knees at prayer meetings. They are pursuing the word day by day instead of settling for the sudden thrill of religion only...