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Freshman football 38, Naval Academy Prep...
Freshman football vs. Naval Academy Prep, 11 a.m., Soldiers Field...
...three prep schools, Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a few years later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late...
...Moscow and Leningrad and the Institute of Foreign Relations. To help get their children through the rigorous entrance exams, many parents hire private tutors at five rubles ($7.65) an hour. Others bribe admissions officers. In a case reported by Izvestiya last month, the woman in charge of a scientific prep school in Tomsk got an eight-year prison sentence for selling admissions. According to Izvestiya, she "accepted almost anything as a bribe, from mink coats to pails of berries...
...much of the horror that seeps across the screen makes chilling sense. Jack Torrance has drifted from the security of a teaching job at an elite New England prep school to the doors of the Overlook Hotel, where he applies for the position of winter caretaker. The Overlook stands high in the Rockies of Boulder, Colorado, an enormous summer resort with a history that extends to the beginning of the century. During the winter, however, snowfalls that cover the access road from November to May cut off the Overlook from civilization. Jack expects to finish a novel during the quiet...