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...last days of the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. At that time, some held that private sins, once admitted, could be forgiven and swept under the rug as "youthful indiscretions" irrelevant to one's presidential functions--that in the case of Clinton, the extramarital could be considered merely extracurricular. Others, many of whom now find themselves uncomfortably defending Texas Gov. George W. Bush, demanded that the president excel all his countrymen in virtue, a requirement that Jimmy Carter might pass but that John F. Kennedy '40 would surely fail...
What's missing from this frenzy of teenage motion is any cheers for the high school football squad. These girls are themselves hard-working athletes, members of the World Cup Shooting Stars, an extracurricular, all-star team of 12- to 18-year-olds from Freehold, N.J. They travel up to four hours three times a week for practice and take part in a dozen competitions each year. Many have turned down spots on their high school softball or basketball team to hone their skills with full twists and backflips...
...happens to all of us, even the economics concentrators. Who knows how that not-so-modest fee for tuition, room and board suddenly ballooned by several thousand? Sourcebook costs, overdue library books, lost ID cards and extracurricular courses somehow always conspire against us. These miscellaneous expenses are easily written off to our termbills and even more easily forgotten. Unfortunately, this usually means that come vacation time, the surprise that awaits us at home is not freshly baked cookies but stern lectures...
...first phoned the Republican Reassurer last winter after reading an article about Bush as a fraternity boy at Yale. "Listen, R.R.," I said. "I knew people who were Dekes at Yale--perfectly nice people who may have thought of breaking furniture on weekends as their extracurricular activity. I've got no problem with that. But president of Deke! Isn't that an indication that he took it seriously...
Freshman Parents Weekend reminds many Harvard students of the challenges that we had while we attempted to acclimate to our new environment. Apparently there are some who ease into the nonstop academic and extracurricular thrill ride that is otherwise known as Harvard. The rest of us go through what others politely call the adjustment period. Last