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This is an all-too-familiar scenario for many Harvard students whose parents, for one reason or another, have remained...attached. The majority of students are finished with curfews and other embarrassing tokens of parental supervision after high school. Some are not so lucky. Some continue to live their college lives under the watchful eye of their parents. All such parents are not the same, but they can be roughly classified into four types: the Overprotective Parent, the Control Freak, the Parent Who's Living Vicariously, and the Nosey Parent. Admittedly, the above parenting disorders are closely related and often...
...Overprotective Parent...
...laptops to schools at discount rates has grown from 52 public and private schools in 1996 to more than 170 this year. The private Cincinnati Country Day School requires all 500 of its students from grades 6 through 12 to carry laptops; the school pays half the cost, and parents chip in one-third. The public school district in Beaufort, S.C., leased laptops to 300 students last year, and after a swell of parent demands, expanded the program this fall to 1,000. In Texas, state-school-board president Jack Christie is pushing a proposal to junk textbooks and outfit...
Paxon is leaving politics to be with his wife, Susan Molinari, and their young daughter. Molinari left Congress last spring for CBS-TV. As a result, America is left with one fewer House power struggle to watch. And while the parents' desire to be with their child is noble, New York voters are left with a sense of abandonment that no parent would want their child to feel...
DIED. PATRICK CLARK, 42, pioneer of all sorts: first as a chef whose embrace of French cooking in the 1980s left patrons and rivals sighing, "Merveilleux!"; then as a parent of 1990s American nouvelle cuisine boom; and, as head chef at such to-die-for spots as Odeon and Cafe Luxembourg, one of the first blacks donning the top toque; of a heart attack; in Princeton...