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...coming-of-age experience--the stuff of endless novels, movies and pop songs--could gradually be rendered unrecognizable. Goodbye Salinger, Elvis and Bob Dylan; hello psychopharmacology. "The kids in my school traded Zoloft and Prozac pills the way kids used to trade baseball cards," says Stephen Morris, an Episcopal priest and former chaplain at a Texas parochial school. Of course, this school experience doesn't prove that schoolyards everywhere have turned into bustling prescription-drug bazaars. But Morris, who headed a schoolwide committee called Addressing Behaviors of Concern, recalls that "the problems we focused on were not dramatically different from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Danger of Suppressing Sadness | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

When Boris Yeltsin was baptized, a tipsy priest dropped the baby in the font and left him there, struggling for air, until his terrified parents persuaded the priest to fish him out. The priest was not fazed, Yeltsin recalled in his autobiography. "The boy's a fighter [borets in Russian]," he said. "We'll call him Boris." Yeltsin is still a fighter, and still has luck on his side, as the collapse of an attempt to impeach him last weekend shows. He also has cunning, and a formidable state patronage system that works for him, as well as a constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Survival of the Fittest | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Although Illingworth--who is also an Episcopal priest--has not held a position similar to the new job before, Lewis said his work in the admissions and financial aid office will serve him well when dealing with students...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Illingworth Chosen to Fill Epps' Position | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

...learn a lot about student problems by being a financial aid officer for a long time, and you also learn about people's problems by being a cleric, a priest, which he also has been," Lewis said...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Illingworth Chosen to Fill Epps' Position | 5/21/1999 | See Source »

Sloppy research Opening blurb refers to "Dark Ages"--a gauche term--plus the movie actually takes place in the early Renaissance; priest mixes up Latin grammar; Joan's brother did not die during the attack on Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noah's O.K., but We Need Babes | 5/17/1999 | See Source »

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