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...West Aurora High School in Aurora, Ill., has put on ambitious shows in the past like Cats and Les Misérables, and last year she even figured out a way to get a helicopter to lift off the stage for a production of Miss Saigon. But that was kid stuff compared her challenge this spring: staging the nation's first licensed high school edition of Rent. Though the script had been pruned of most of the roughest material, this is still a musical in which most of the characters are either on drugs, suffering from AIDS, or having...
...think Wii Fit will be more popular with adults than kids, and especially with women, although there are a few challenges, like trying to catch fish jumping out of the water by sliding from one side of the board to the other, that are especially kid friendly. Namco Bandai's WeSki patrol, which is compatible with the Wii balance board, is already on sale, and a bunch more titles using the board are rumored to be in the works...
...MARYA HORNBACHER: My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids. My own awareness that something was wrong with me was also very, very early. I was aware that I was pretty wild, that I couldn't calm myself, that I had dramatic shifts in moods and thought patterns. I always felt a little crazy. As I got older, I started having real problems in school. I was getting in trouble a lot. I was developing an eating disorder and some substance abuse problems...
...guess I was about 12 when my parents first had me go see a psychiatrist. At the time, they were concerned with my grades and my behavior in school, which was disastrous. School counselors, teachers, my family, really thought it was just that I was an out-of-control kid. In my mind, I knew I was crazy, and I couldn't stop. When I was at school, I would just lose my mind and go into rages, or have little crying fits and lock myself in my room at home...
...doing a billion things all at the same time,” according J.D. Connor ’92, a former Crimson editor. And yes, the popular bits culled from the billion often turn out to be as ridiculous as two minutes of a laughing baby, or a fat kid imitating “Star Wars,” or Tay Zonday singing “Chocolate Rain.” And, yes, we laugh at them and their absurdity as often, or more often, than we laugh along with them.Conscious of this ridicule, Ian Spector, the creator...