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...mentioned to some people that I felt like, at least in terms of ability, this was the best kicking specialist we’ve recruited,” said Harvard coach Tim Murphy. “He’s really been a very level-headed kid all through preseason, very unflappable, doesn’t talk a lot, just goes out and does well...
When you're a kid, it's better to be tall than short, right? Not necessarily, according to a study in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers asked nearly 1,000 6th-to 12th-graders in western New York to list their friends, rate the likability of their classmates and pick out peers with particular characteristics, such as "is a good leader." Respondents graded very short teens--those about six inches shorter than average--as being just as well adjusted, well liked, disliked or bullied as their taller peers...
...last thing that I hope to produce in my students is a Trump apprentice,” Levitsky said. “But Andy is a really smart, articulate, personable kid who can go very far in whatever he chooses...
...least remarked upon (and possibly least cared about) consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks is the utter disarray into which they have thrown the American novel. Used to be a literary novel was a taut, emotional family drama set in the Midwest about some sensitive kid coping with a crippling disease. Now books like that read like naive, escapist fantasies. These days it's supermarket thrillers that grapple with pressing geopolitical realities. Tom Clancy's world view has become more plausible and more relevant than Jeffrey Eugenides...
...least remarked upon (and possibly least cared about) consequences of the Sept. 11 attacks is the utter disarray into which they have thrown the American novel. Used to be a literary novel was a taut, emotional family drama set in the Midwest about some sensitive kid coping with a crippling disease. Now books like that read like naive, escapist fantasies. These days it's supermarket thrillers that grapple with pressing geopolitical realities. Tom Clancy's world view has become more plausible and more relevant than Jeffrey Eugenides...