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Penn State, a Big-10 Powerhouse, will also pose a strong challenge to Harvard. The team features two freshman phenoms: Sean Anderson, a freestyler and backstroker, was the Connecticut state champion in those events, and Alex Kumha, out of Sudbury, Mass., is a speedy individual medley swimmer...
...women are counting on strong performances from co-captain Deborah Kory in the breaststroke and individual medley and on Caroline Miller in the butterfly and IM. They also have high hopes for freshman backstroker Kathy Liu and sophomore distance swimmer Gretta Steffenson...
When J. Hector St. John Crevecoeur praised the "strange religious medley" he observed in late 18th century America, he could hardly have imagined the full orchestral symphony of faiths that resounds in the U.S. two centuries later. The world has never seen a nation as religiously diverse as the U.S., which becomes ever more so each year under the impact of new immigrants. In addition to the various mainstream Judeo-Christian faiths that populated the original colonies, America now encompasses 700 to 800 "nonconventional" denominations, according to J. Gordon Melton, who monitors the proliferation for his Encyclopedia of American Religions...
...spent $5.9 million on bilingual education; courses are offered in Spanish, Khmer, Lao, Portugese and Vietnamese. All communications between schools and parents are translated into five languages. At the Cary Reynolds elementary school in the Atlanta suburb of De Kalb County, Georgia, students from 25 foreign nations speak a medley of languages ranging from Mandarin to Farsi...
...list of accomplishments in the collegiate pool boasts of being named 1992-93 first-team All-Ivy in the 200-yard individual medley, in the 400-yard IM and in the 400-yard freestyle relay; second-team All-Ivy in the 200-yard breaststroke, the 500-yard freestyle relay, the 200-yard medley relay and the 400-yard medley relay, and setting two Eastern Championship records last year...