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...brainy high schoolers, he anticipated a rigorous curriculum focused on the three Rs. Instead Hatem, a science teacher and volunteer coach, opened the prepackaged U.S. Academic Decathlon Association study materials and was stunned to discover bizarre questions asking, for example, what year the daughter of jazz great Charlie Parker died (1955). "This crap is the antithesis of everything education's supposed to be," Hatem fumes. Says Mark Johnson, who coached Los Angeles' El Camino Real High to the 1998 national championship: "Decathlon has become a joke...
Sarah Jessica Parker is host of the MTV Movie Awards on June 8; HBO's Sex and the City starts June...
...found a signed Sarah Jessica Parker rubber duck on eBay for $50. Tell me I wasn't suckered...
When Ernie Parker and four partners decided to start a minor-league hockey team in Lafayette, La., five years ago, the nicest thing they heard was laughter. Now all they're hearing is cheers. The Louisiana Ice Gators (get it?) led the 28-team East Coast Hockey League in attendance their first four seasons, averaging 10,500 fans per game--more than the (nominally) Big League New York Islanders drew this year. Of course, the Gators are a winning team, at week's end up two games to none over the Peoria Rivermen in the ECHL finals...
Newton and her husband, British screenwriter Oliver Parker, are expecting their first baby in September and awaiting the release of an independent film they worked on together called It Was an Accident. It's about a guy just out of prison who must meet three conditions (stay clean, get a job and pass an AIDS test) before he can win back his childhood sweetheart, Newton. As for the rest, Newton, who grew up in what she says was a largely colorblind atmosphere, is philosophical about her chances in Hollywood. "I am both Zimbabwean and English. I'm from nowhere...