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...every weekday morning, downs a five-minute breakfast, reports to school at 7:50, returns home at 3:15, hits the books from 5 to 9 (with a break for dinner) and goes to sleep at 10:30. Saturdays are little better: from 9 to 5 he attends a prep program in the hope of getting a scholarship to a private school. Then there are piano lessons and a couple of hours of practice a week. If he's lucky, he'll squeeze in his friends on Sunday. "Sometimes I think, like, since I'm a kid, I need...
...those "worn-in" khakis and your Patagonia retro fleece and find those prep-school roots by dropping by the Paradise for a little drumming action by the different-is-better band, Rusted Root. Make sure you're prepared for some mind altering bongo-bashing as this band goes crazy looking for some kind of ethnic background through some funky rhythm and jarring lyrics. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave. Boston. 562-8800. Ticket prices vary...
...Gates has a memory problem? In the two hours of Gates's 20-hour video deposition shown in court Monday, the Microsoft chairman appears unable to recall anything about critical e-mail messages he sent to subordinates concerning Apple, Sun and other competitors. Antitrust prosecutors used the tapes to prep the court for Wednesday's appearance by Apple exec Avadis Tevanian, hoping that Gates's performance will cast a shadow over his corporation's motives: "A lot of this trial comes down to the perception of whether or not a monopoly played within the rules and used its market share...
...paternal side), Cousin itself is never quite sure what it is. At times it is a barrage of various bildungsroman tales, the coming-of-age stories of various Lowell and Winslow family scions. At other times it is a relentless catalogue of family members moving in and out of prep schools, relationships, asylums and even the hallowed halls of Harvard itself...
Actually, Meghan's success story starts much earlier. When she decided against attending Cambridge University this fall, she also turned down an attractive offer to teach math at a NY prep school. She decided to see what else was out there...