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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some conservatives argue that being turned away at the admissions stage is better for minority students than being welcomed onto campus only to discover that they have been poorly prepared for the academic work. "It's remarkable how little thought is given to what happens to students when they get...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to Square One | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

Animal Kingdom boasts other shows: a zesty Jungle Book presentation, with gaily colored puppets; and a Festival of the Lion King (the fourth stage show Disney has spun off from its 1994 animated smash) that blends audience participation with tumbling, stilt-walking, Cirque du Soleil-style big-topicality. In Dinoland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Beauty and the Beasts | 4/20/1998 | See Source »

The wow-Hasidic-Jews! genre is now 0 for 2. Renee Zwelleger plays Sonya, a Hasidic Jew who can't handle her religion's strict more. Constantly red-faced or stuck in a deliriously cheesy monologue, Zwelleger tears into the role trying to make the film somewhat watchable. All her...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

Forcing kids to engage in activities we deem "useful" overlooks each child's uniqueness and denies them the opportunity to learn the lessons of life for them-selves. When we give kids their own time to do what they wish, they become creative and resourceful. They invent, they wonder, they...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Hanging On to Monkey Bars | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

The Priest Fainted, Catherine Temma Davidson's first novel, is another one of those lovely stories dealing with women who travel to distant lands trying to escape their mothers, only to discover--surprise!--that their lives are more similar to their mother's than they thought. Davidson also attempts to...

Author: By Marcelline Block, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: `Priest' Chronicles a Long, Boring Trip | 4/17/1998 | See Source »

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