Word: nearly
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...time draws near to when the Senate must vote, and everyone and their neighbor spouts off the same points we've heard a thousand times, keep it all in perspective. Giving Congress the power to make flag desecration illegal isn't a cure-all for our problems nor is it the end of freedom as we know it. And next time you have a good ol' Fourth of July barbecue, make sure to get American flag party napkins. Breezy H. Tollinger 'O2 is a first-year in Lionel...
...mushy--programs that help bullies deal with frustration have been shown to reduce school violence. Schools that try very hard to connect to families and communities can find potentially destructive students earlier. Not surprisingly, the districts that have had the most success are the ones with schools in or near big cities, which have had to combat violence the longest. Five years ago, DeKalb County officials in Georgia were finding so many weapons on campus that they began a campaign to alert parents...
...next wave" in fashion so vividly displayed in your report on young designers [FASHION, April 12] won't find me waving back. As long as fashion designers make bizarre, impractical clothes for 5-ft. 10-in. anorexic models and ignore a 5-ft. housewife who is nowhere near a size 10, I won't buy. ELIZABETH FIFIELSKI San Marcos, Calif...
From a ridge on Mount Holyoke--the mountain, not the college--Tracy Kidder looks down at Northampton, Mass., near where he lives. He has just written an impressionistic portrait of this old New England community, Home Town (Random House; 349 pages; $25.95). From his perch, he dreams up a lofty introduction that concludes, "...the cornfields are a dream of perfect order, and the town seems entirely coherent, self-contained, a place where a person might live a whole life and consider it complete, a tiny civilization all its own." Then, beguiled by a sentimental image, he adds, "The town below...
Most teenagers exist in a state of near constant mortification at the prospect of supervision by their parents. But surely a parent can risk his child's embarrassment, and his own discomfort, to get in his or her face a little bit. Surely we can manage to love them a little louder. To find the time to read their school papers, listen to their music, watch what they watch and get to know their friends. I have a memory of my mother, bless her, sitting at our dining-room table and reading the liner notes to Thick as a Brick...