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...Whatever that is. According to the Census Bureau, 27 percent of American families with kids are headed by a single parent. "Family comedy," though, still carries overtones of the Ike years, when sitcoms like "Father Knows Best" defined the genre and American pop culture was supposed to promote stability, peace and the effacement of discord at any cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Post-Nuclear Explosion | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Students said "parent-proofing dorm rooms," as Leigh Wahba '04 called it, was common, but said general cleaning was even more so. Clothes were cleaned, floors vacuumed and mysterious odors were banished yesterday by anxious first-years...

Author: By Joseph P. Flood, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: First-Year Parents Descend On Yard | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

...game after failing a number of subjects. Not surprisingly, the boy's outraged father confronted the faculty. What followed was a very interesting dialogue on the weightier issues surrounding the kid's situation: the school's burden of fault for letting him get that far, the parent's responsibility, and the purpose of a high school education...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saved by the Bell: Beyond the Back Page | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

Furthermore, he did have both a parent and student on the field trip corroborate the account. The Current strongly supports the quality of Levine's reporting. And indeed, since our press release, we have received e-mails from two more students as well as another parent who have also verified Gelman and Jacobovitz's statements. We have so far received nothing from witnesses contesting the article we published on thinkcurrent.com. Lloyd Grove at the Washington Post did not reproduce the Current's article without himself checking the sources. It's interesting that The Crimson chose to emphasize that RNC committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 10/26/2000 | See Source »

CyberWorks' share price plunged 16% in one day last month, to $1.16. (It's down almost 70% from its February high of $3.38.) It was dragged down partly by NASDAQ's own lackluster performance, but there was another, more direct cause. Britain's Cable & Wireless, the parent of the Hong Kong firm, dumped a quarter of its 20.1% stake in CyberWorks, acquired after the merger with HKT was approved in August. According to analysts, the move suggested that Cable & Wireless expects CyberWorks' shares to fall further. "Actions speak louder than words," says Henry D.C. Lee, managing director of Hendale Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberson Gets Zapped | 10/23/2000 | See Source »

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