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Many, like Forbess, attend the Summer School so that they can devote the entirety of their days to one, sometimes two, difficult courses that, if taken during term-time, would eat away large chunks of their time, stunting their academic, extracurricular, and social lives (not to mention sleep schedules).

Author: By Brendan R. Linn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer Programs Cull Busy Students | 7/15/2005 | See Source »

Youth courts devote attention to infractions that busy juvenile and family courts tend to handle perfunctorily. "Referring kids [to peer courts] lets us do more than just slap them on the wrist," says Patrice Lockart, a victim specialist with the Colonie police department. The experience is also more attuned to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Jury of Their Peers | 7/11/2005 | See Source »

A striking number of the girls here are aspiring actresses—in other words, waitresses. Just yesterday at dinner, a group of girls applauded their friend for finally quitting her menial day job in order to devote her entire day to searching for gigs. Then there are the fashionistas...

Author: By Sarah E.F. Milov, | Title: A Woman’s World | 7/1/2005 | See Source »

Yet as the pictures testify, this apparently prosaic man harbored a true poetic vision. A passionate student of the piano, Adams reluctantly concluded in his late 20s that his hands were too small for a concert career. After an encounter with the photographer Paul Strand, he decided to devote himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Closing Accounts: ANSEL ADAMS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

Instead of publishing Ambassador Netanyahu's views, you should devote your columns to explaining how much Israel has contributed to so-called terrorism. The current level of violence is only the tip of the iceberg. Denying the Palestinian issue is leading to global disaster. Farooque Rizwy Brooklyn Park, Minn.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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