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...Third World, but it really arises from indulgence and provincialism: the singular condition of parents paying for everything—room, board, books and classes—thus rendering the quality of goods and services received for the most part irrelevant to the student. As long as Mom and Dad are the ones footing the bill, students have little incentive to care much about bad food and bad TFs.It reminds Dartboard of when he was six years old, reading story books about the real world: “There’s the nice police officer who keeps us safe...
...admonitions and restrictions imposed upon us—30 minutes per day ONLY after practicing the piano—were not enough to keep us away. We became pros at sneaking that extra half-hour: just for today; I’ll clean my room; no Mom, it’s a special double episode; Channel 9 is okay because it’s educational...
Perhaps a handful of kids at Harvard have juggled before an audience. Fewer have broken their noses doing a back flip into a metal equipment box. And it’s safe to assume that there’s only one whose mom has beef with the Ringling Brothers...
...mother, Circus Flora’s co-founder and artistic director, immediately immersed her son in the “totally different lifestyle” of circus performance, says Marsh. By 7, he regularly starred in his own juggling and tumbling act. And, adds Marsh’s mom, “by the time he was 11, he was juggling fire and under the mentorship of Hovey, the juggling master...
When 8-month-old Aliya Jane met her new, adoptive family last August in the orphanage at Krasnoyarsk, Russia, there were two loving faces to learn. There to greet her was mom Beth Stubenbord, 40, a single woman from New York City, and grandma Jane, 64. Recalling the emotional journey, Beth says she couldn't imagine making it alone: "I knew I wanted my mother to go with me. I wanted somebody else to rely on and talk to." Having her experienced hands along also proved invaluable as Jane cared for Aliya during the day so Beth could grab...