Word: frans
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Parents who foot the bill for such epiphanies often start out eyeing those courses with varying degrees of skepticism. After Matthew Schwartz told his parents he was enrolling in the cyberporn class at Buffalo last year, his mother Fran joked that he had got the school to tailor a class around his interests. His father Marvin complained, "I'm paying for you to study what?" The class delved into what causes cultures to define pornography in different ways--lessons that Schwartz, 21 and a senior, says will make him more sensitive in his planned career as a translator in Arab...
...Fran Pavley, 57, a former middle school history teacher, doesn't seem like the sort to attract death threats. But as a freshman in the California Assembly she introduced a bill that would set strict limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from the state's cars and trucks-a measure that triggered a furious counter-attack. Whipped up by conservative talk shows and a $5 million ad campaign funded by the auto industry, angry calls flooded the legislature by the thousands. At one point, a menacing parade of SUVs circled the State Capitol and a man threatened to stalk Pavley with...
...trap game for the Quakers, but likely only if Penn already has the Ivy title sewn up.The Quakers have very little depth right now, as the squad boasts Ivy sixth man of the year Brian Grandieri and a banged up Friedrich Ebede behind its excellent starting five. Penn coach Fran Dunphy has stood pat with playing seven (and with Ebede’s injury six) despite the tremendous fatigue that it brings upon his squad.If the Quakers have clinched the outright league crown, take Brown and the points. But if there’s something left to play for, Penn...
...Quakers up three, but Crimson senior center Brian Cusworth answered with an offensive board and put back to pull Harvard back within one. “I feel like we’re in a position where everyone wants to beat us,” Penn coach Fran Dunphy said. “In all honesty, it’s an enviable position.” As the shot clock ticked down on Penn’s next possession, Quakers guard Brian Grandieri drove into the lane and crashed into a group of players as he let his shot...
...feel like we’re in a position where everyone wants to beat us,” Penn coach Fran Dunphy said. “In all honesty, it’s an enviable position...