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...MARGOT HORNBLOWER, a TIME national correspondent based in Los Angeles, likes to work on stories that put a human face on great social issues, such as crime, gambling and immigration. But as the mother of two high school students, she has a special interest in education; in recent months she has reported on the charter school movement and the controversy over bilingual curriculums. In this week's issue she writes about a new full-service approach to public schooling called CoZi. Visiting Bowling Park and Sycamore Hills, two schools profiled in her story, Hornblower was struck by their...
...movies, Superman would have been there to catch the falling Lois Lane. But this was not celluloid, and actress MARGOT KIDDER, left, in 1992, has crash-landed. Due in Phoenix to teach an acting class, the once fast-living co-star of the Superman movies inexplicably turned up in the backyard of a suburban L.A. home, bedraggled and hysterical. Police took her to a psychiatric hospital. For a time in the early '90s, the thrice-divorced Kidder had been wheelchair-bound after a car crash. Her career faded. Recently she's been holed up in Montana, writing her autobiography: Calamities...
...Margot Hornblower. With reporting by Jyl Benson/New Orleans and Wendy Cole/East St. Louis
...MARGOT HORNBLOWER returned to the U.S. in 1994 after six years at TIME's Paris bureau and was astonished to see how much gambling was going on in America. Back in 1988, Nevada and New Jersey were the only two states where casinos were permitted. Since then they have been legalized in 24 others. Hornblower's report this week examines gambling's hidden costs and often illusory benefits. Just how pervasive wagering has become was driven home for Hornblower when she flew back to Los Angeles from her reporting assignment and found a letter from her son's parochial school...
Both Harvard players lost to eventual winner Margot Green, a professional player from New York and a Franklin and Marshall graduation...