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...another contributor to revisionism. As many of the baby-boomers begin to hit their middle years, they are following the normal course of settling down, devoting more energy to their work and in general becoming more conservative. Caroline Stewart, 34, a Philadelphia journalist, managed to juggle both the new morality and the old during the '70s. As she grew up in Pittsburgh, her father blinked the message "Stay a virgin at all costs." She headed to Washington and became a grudging conscript in the sexual revolution. After her first romance broke up, she recalls, "I was wild, for me. Many...
...money isn't the only reason public-school teachers quit. Ben Van Dyk, 25, left a job teaching in a high-poverty Philadelphia school after just one year to take a position at a Catholic school where his earning prospects are lower but where he has more support from mentors, more control over how he teaches and fewer problems with student discipline. Novice teachers are much more likely to call it quits if they work in schools where they feel they have little input or support, says Ingersoll. And there's evidence that the best and brightest are the first...
...humor emerges subtly, the finest example coming when she turns her attention to the fashion of mourning. Women at home bought rich black silks and velvets to mark the socially-required mourning that could last up to two and a half years. At one store in Philadelphia women could purchase black fabrics of every design in July 1863—which was, Faust devilishly adds, “just in time for Gettysburg.” It takes great talent to make a reader laugh while writing about the Civil War. No one, even the fashionable lady mourner, is exempt...
...PHILADELPHIA, Penn.—In an otherwise unexciting first half of the Harvard men’s basketball team’s Ivy battle at Penn, tempers flared between junior forward Evan Harris and Quaker sophomore Justin Reilly...
...victory on Sunday.While it is difficult to point out a weakness in New England, it is apparent that this is not the same team that demolished opponents with ease in the first half of the season. The Patriots came within three points of losing to both the Philadelphia Eagles and the Baltimore Ravens—who each finished last in their respective divisions—in Weeks 12 and 13. Then, on Dec. 29, these very Giants famously held a 12-point lead over New England until late in the third quarter when the Patriot monster finally reared its ugly...