Word: eighth
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...name also "parallels the reaction to our music, which is 'What?' " No matter what its inspiration or explanation, Was (Not Was) is certainly an improvement on Fagenson (not Weiss), which, while never a consideration, would at least have been straightforward. Don Fagenson and David Weiss first met in eighth grade outside a gym teacher's office, where they awaited disciplining. Don's parents were both teachers. David's mother was an actress, and his father was a radio and TV actor who worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Soupy Sales and appeared for a decade as Santa...
Harvard, the Elis' opponent Tuesday night at Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Conn., has every reason to dream the highest dreams hockey offers. The Crimson is 13-0 in the league and the top-ranked team in the country. The Elis are 4-7 and eighth in the ECAC...
...rich get richer," Taylor said. "The fact that Harvard is 15-0 and we're 4-7, that they're first in the ECAC and we're eighth, is important to a recruit...
Cigarette use was declining among teenagers, but has now leveled off. Children, especially girls, are taking up tobacco at a younger age. Among high school seniors who have ever smoked, a quarter took their first puff by the sixth grade and half by the eighth. Restrictions on children's access to cigarettes have weakened; many stores routinely ignore minimum-age-of- purchaser laws...
...firms: Edu-Care International, with offices in New York City, Miami and London, employs more than 60 people and advises 150 students a year. Private coaches generally prefer meeting clients when they are juniors or seniors in high school. But Jane McLagen of Hinsdale, Ill., likes to sign up eighth- graders because it gives her more time to shape their record. In past summers she has sent one student to Greece to build roads, another to Hawaii to teach language to dolphins. "It makes them more interesting to the college," she says. "They can show how they use their time...