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Close your mathematics books, boys and girls. Save the grammar exercise and the chemistry lab for tomorrow. It's time to grab Mom and Dad away from their jobs so you can all receive a real educational lesson at the local theater...

Author: By Jonathan Samuels, | Title: How Do You Learn If You Aren't in School? | 11/18/1992 | See Source »

...Democratic incumbent who had supported Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, then won in the general election over an ex-Reagan official. Braun will be the first black woman Senator. California, with two seats open, chose establishment Democrat Dianne Feinstein and liberal firebrand Barbara Boxer. Once mocked as "a mom in tennis shoes," Washington state senator Patty Murray becomes a U.S. Senator after a campaign that turned insult to advantage. But Lynn Yeakel lost to Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter in a fierce battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From Anita Hill To Capitol Hill | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...there were achievements, as well as adrenaline, to build on. Almost all the women candidates, including Patty ("just a mom in tennis shoes") Murray from Washington State, had already served in a state legislature. What they needed for the big leap was money, and this had been quietly building through the '80s, as a generation of female fast-trackers made partner, moved into corner offices and began to write their own checks. After Hill-Thomas, they couldn't seem to write them fast enough. The bipartisan National Women's Political Caucus raised $61,000 from a single newspaper ad featuring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Do Women Have to Celebrate? | 11/16/1992 | See Source »

...your parents know my rhymes," chirps a character called Mama Goose on MCA's Nursery Rhymes Rap. And although many new songs continue to deal with subjects like eating vegetables or coping with siblings, some grapple with difficult family issues. "You see, Timmy's dad was married/ To his mom a while ago/ But now they are divorced/ Sometimes that's the way things go," sings Craig Taubman, who also records for Disney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: More Than Child's Play | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...photo shot by a friend last February, just as I was about to take my first steps into Harvard. I liked the neat symbolism of it all, you know, leaving that particular picture as I prepared to take my first real steps into the University. My mom would enjoy it, because she thinks the world of me and likes it when I extend such small gestures. Kind of like the time one Mother's Day when I left a big stack of debate evidence lying on the coffee table. She would disgustedly pick up the big pile, I knew...

Author: By Peter K. Han, | Title: Endpaper | 11/5/1992 | See Source »

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