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Swings? Slides? How hopelessly retro. Nowadays, if a kid waits till she's 10 to decide she wants to compete at an advanced level, the travel team will have already left the station. Her peers will be making deft one-touch passes while she's still learning to dribble. That leaves as her only option the easygoing recreation league, where the coaching is desultory and players often go AWOL. While many parents of kids on "rec" teams equate "keeping it fun" with holding down the level of instruction and competition, the kids often see things differently. Young, of the professional...
NAME: New York Post AGE: 198 OCCUPATION: Tabloid/Clinton basher/would-be political journal BEST PUNCH: In reporting the Baldwin rebuke, referred to him as "underemployed," "portly" and "pathetic"; two days later, ran an unflattering photo of him, left, under the headline FROM HUNKY TO CHUNKY...
...Baby. But that conservatism simply underlines the urge of top filmmakers to rediscover an honorable American tradition: the tale of psychological terror. Invented by Poe, mastered by Melville, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, H.P. Lovecraft--and branded forever on film by Hitchcock--the horror genre is too important to be left to the kids. It speaks to every doubt and guilt we silently carry; it lends a seductive form to fear and leaves us with a dread not easily shaken...
...White always left town on his birthday," he said, "because that's when the reporters would show up, bothering him. He'd tell us at the store where he was going, but nobody else...
...villain who got them into this mess. But if he?d agree to get them out ?- and let the healing of Serbia begin before its condition gets even more desperate ? maybe Cohen & Co. ought to let him. Better the one that got away than the one that never left...