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...school like Harvard, you can't help but have academics come first," Tri-Captain Eileen Pratt said. "It's a top priority...
...This year we made a big step," Pratt said. "We gained the respect of all the teams in the East...
...This way, we ended the season on an up note," said Pratt, who will captain next year's team...
...with clever asides from "Jane," "Catherine," "Karen," "Christina" and the rest of the staff, it has singlehandedly pioneered a new genre: pajama-party journalism. "The big question we ask is what would a 16-year-old want to learn that no one else would tell her," says Editor Jane Pratt, 25. After being presented with an idea, Pratt hashes it out with her equally young staff, and then, it often seems, simply publishes the text of the discussion. "It was a typical Wednesday morning meeting," begins a feature on flirting. "Elizabeth and Catherine were having their usual argument over...
...Pratt, who worked briefly at Teen and McCall's before being recruited by Yates, says Sassy is much more difficult to edit than its conversational tone would suggest. "Coming up with story ideas is still a stretch," she remarks, sitting in her uncluttered pink office overlooking Manhattan's Times Square. After only three issues, Sassy already has a circulation of 280,000, a figure Yates predicts will balloon to 1 million over the next five years. That would put Sassy in the same league as its chief competitors, Seventeen (circ. 1.86 million) and Teen (circ. 1.19 million), and make...