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...intensity of tonight's game does not phase the young two-meter. After coming off a more than-impressive high school career, Zimmerman is accustomed to playing in and winning pressure-filled games...
...children enter the physical and emotional turmoil of adolescence, they naturally seek more independence and experiment more boldly. But it is precisely at this phase, the report shows, that parental involvement in school activities--and by extension, parents' influence on their kids' lives--drops off. Seventy-five percent of the parents of nine-year-olds claim high or medium involvement, while only 55% of the parents of 14-year-olds...
...Algerian presidential election. "What the militants don't understand is that Chirac is planning to read Zeroual the riot act," TIME's Bruce Crumley reports from Paris. "He's going to tell him that France not only wants to see democratic elections, but wants to see democracy in every phase of the society. Regarding the terrorism, a problem for the French government is that the terrorists do not speak with one voice. So even if they capitulated to these demands, there is no guarantee they won't be given more threats from another cell of Algerian terrorists. There is very...
...convalescent Haiti faces another challenge on the path to recovery. In accordance with the constitution, which decrees a single-term presidency of five years, the immensely popular Aristide must step down after his replacement is selected in December elections. Two months later, the remaining 7,000 U.N. troops will phase out, leaving the preservation of law and order to a fledgling Haitian police force. Not long after, the remainder of the $1.2 billion in international aid that has sustained Haiti during the year since Aristide's return will begin to run out. Will Haiti be able to manage a peaceful...
...failures and ideological strictures of some existing bilingual programs. Last fall, for example, when Westminster officials pushed teachers to take Spanish and Vietnamese classes or face a transfer, the teachers' union organized a takeover of the school board, voting in three new members who have vowed to phase out bilingual classes such as Marina Williams'. "It is unconstitutional to force American citizens to learn a foreign language in order to keep their job," says Michael Verringia, the new school-board president...