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Throughout her career, senior midfielder Meredith Stewart has never been one of the most frequent scorers on the Harvard women's soccer team. When she does figure into the offense, though, she has an uncanny knack for making it count...
...that I've got the knack of bartering, I'm thinking like an entrepreneur--or maybe a rug saleswoman--as I scheme to get the best deals and make my junk seem like a steal. I'm getting so bold that I'm thinking of doing an auction or two. Maybe my day job hasn't sapped my adventurous spirit after...
...check the newspaper to see how the stocks are doing that I invested heavily into," says Bethany Murphy, 11, who came by a hypothetical $50,000 portfolio when her Mount Laurel, N.J., newspaper ran a contest to track readers' stock picks. Bethany lost the contest but discovered a knack for choosing stocks by virtually "earning" a 14% return. Typical of market-savvy children, she has an astute eye for the world around her. She won a national essay contest, advising Stein Roe's portfolio managers to buy Home Depot. A store with a jam-packed parking lot, she reasoned...
...Forget Me! shows Stine's knack for unearthing and exploiting the primal emotions of childhood, in this case sibling rivalry. Danielle, 15, can't understand why her parents and friends find her pesky little brother Peter, 9, so endearing. He's always trying to horn in on her fun. When Danielle and a chum are practicing a mock-hypnotism act for a school skit, Peter--natch--insists that Danielle hypnotize him. Uh-oh. Not only does little brother go into a trance and come out of it with an alarming loss of memory, but also strange voices start emanating from...
...show, which may need him as much as he needs it. In the ratings last week, Ally lost to a show called Best Commercials Never Seen 3. Show publicists confirmed that, starting with the season premiere, Downey will appear in eight episodes as a "mysterious stranger with a knack for understanding Ally." He will remain in drug rehab while working...