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...will take Monkette to the Monk Prom--Brainy Monk or Handy Monk? b) The construction of the world's largest bronze Buddha statue d) Who cares? Monk fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Quiz Jul. 16, 2001 | 7/16/2001 | See Source »

That may have made the difference. More than half of Hahn's voters cited character as a key factor. Villaraigosa complained of Hahn's tactics, but Hahn shrugged. "Campaigns," he said, "are not prom dates." Critics accused Hahn of playing on racial sensitivities at a time when Latinos are surpassing blacks as the city's most powerful ethnic constituency. The races were split: about 4 out of 5 blacks voted for Hahn (like his father, a onetime county supervisor, he is a stalwart supporter of the black community), while about the same proportion of Latinos voted for Villaraigosa. "The negative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: How The West Was Won | 6/18/2001 | See Source »

...went to the Jack-in-the-Box (my first date), to the movies and to the Six Flags amusement park. I took dates to the junior prom and the senior prom, on both occasions wearing a goofy rented tuxedo and presenting my date with a large corsage...

Author: By The CLASS Of, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: In Their Own Words | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...went to the Jack-in-the-Box (my first date), to the movies and to the Six Flags amusement park. I took dates to the junior prom and the senior prom, on both occasions wearing a goofy rented tuxedo and presenting my date with a large corsage...

Author: By John PAUL Newport, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: My Harvard Date | 6/5/2001 | See Source »

...classes, begun at Stonewall in 1994, often feel like college seminars. An I.B. anthropology course has become so popular that Stonewall offers four sections of it. In one lesson in April, the day before the prom, teacher Maureen Ellis hopped from apartheid to Yugoslavia to India's Mogul dynasty, and hands shot up as students fielded questions about acculturation and colonialism. It costs Stonewall $66,000 a year to offer the I.B. program, but teachers and parents say the benefits returned to the school are priceless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Schools Of The Year: Pulling In The Parents | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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