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This ignores two facts. The first of these is the fact that girls outperform boys in reading and writing by even larger margins. On the National Assessment of Education Progress Tests (NAEP) given to seventeen-year-olds, boys scored three points higher on math and eleven points higher in science than girls, yet girls performed 13 points better in reading and 24 points higher in writing than boys, according to Sommers...

Author: By Jonathan R. Brooks, | Title: A Question of Self-Esteem | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

...experience this thrill, of course, it's important to have a team that's capable of winning. As near as I can tell, you just need talented kids. We certainly have them. Eleven-year-old Anthony, the league MVP for the last two seasons, can now out-play Coach Joe in intra-squad scrimmages. And, as every Harvard pre-med knows, being aggressive certainly helps. Our kids have a reputation around the league for using their 85-pound masses of flesh to bruise, sprain and bloody their opponents. At practice, they rehearse the slide tackles and body blocks on each...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Petites' Cleats | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...Eleven players scored for the Crimson, and none of the starters played for more than 24 minutes. Harvard was led by Feaster, who netted 15, followed by Katy Davis and Gettelman, who scored 14 and 13 points respectively...

Author: By Ethan G. Drogin, | Title: W. Cagers Sweep Weekend | 3/6/1995 | See Source »

...approached by the imprisoned man's grandmother (in "True Believer," it was the mother), played by the great Ruby Dee. She begs him to come to South Florida to look into the case of her son, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood), convicted in 1986 of the rape and murder of eleven year-old Jodie Shriver. He has been living on death row for eight years. Armstrong ultimately takes the case at the behest of his wife, played by Kate Capshaw. And here, the movie begins to make...

Author: By Benjamin Cavell, | Title: 'Just Cause' Just Short of Thrilling | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

...grossed out! I was on an elevator in William James Hall just before an eleven o'clock class (when it's really crowded), and some guy started rubbing up against me. I didn't know what to do! I got off on a floor lower than I wanted, and just assumed it would never happen again. Two days later it did! Blech! What should I do, Norma? Feeling a Willy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma's Mom Knows Fudge | 2/23/1995 | See Source »

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