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...have a strategy for getting more mature roles? -Claire Young, Niskayuna, N.Y. To be honest, I've never really had any strategy at all. I don't really work that way. I know that when I see a role and it speaks to me, I'm drawn to it and I have to go that direction. But there's no master game plan...
Last year, school boards in Anchorage and in Niskayuna, N.Y., voted to allow gay-straight alliances after nasty debates. And last month, the Hemet, Calif., school board narrowly approved a measure protecting gay students from harassment. A remarkable feature of these skirmishes is that they have been fought largely as local issues, without national attention. Neither the Christian Coalition nor the Human Rights Campaign, the country's largest gay group, has developed a strategy to deal with the emergence of gay youth. Indeed, most gay organizations have avoided children's issues, apparently fearing the old charge that gays...
Ranking near the top of her 300-person class at Niskayuna High School, however, and coolly trying to decide between attending Harvard or Cornell University, Subramanian also represents the prize catch for top schools...
...when Subramanian offhandedly speaks of her Harvard acceptance as "a pleasant surprise," that's when admissions officers squirm and struggle. A daughter of Indian immigrants who was raised in Niskayuna, New York, (pop. about 5000), Subramanian is the big fish for whom the lure of recruitment programs like pre-frosh weekend are intended. And it is her attitude that captures a sentiment more common among pre-frosh in April than in February...
This year, probably no one beats the Crimson at pole-vaulting. Steve Schonover bursts into varsity track as an advanced-placement sophomore; he soared to 14' 4 1/2" at Niskayuna High in New York and he should vault 14 feet Saturday despite a sore leg. That is still a generous 1-4 inch above the previous mark set by Truman Ford...
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