Word: proms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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STOP WORRYING ABOUT THE KING AND QUEEN OF THE PROM It's a high school cliche--the quarterback and head cheerleader reigning over the commoners. And so it will always be, say the authors, who urge parents not to worry about it. "Most children find in due course that their unique abilities and qualities are valued--by someone--even if they were dismissed or rejected by the dominant cliques." And that someone should always include their parents...
...becomes her boyfriend, his punkness and her cheerleaderness are hardly a source of drama at all, while in "Valley Girl," the punk and the popular girl might as well have been Hatfield and McCoy. In "Sugar and Spice," a tight-knit band of cheerleaders consists of a perky prom queen type, a trash-talking convict's daughter, a goodie-two-shoes fundamentalist Christian, and a nerd who gets into Harvard. If they were characters in a movie made ten years ago, they wouldn't be able to remain two minutes in the same locker room without bloodshed...
...complaint is bipartisan. For all of Bush's promises to reach across the aisle, says California Democrat Ellen Tauscher, he hasn't done so. Though Tauscher backs Bush on taxes, trade and missile defense, the response has been underwhelming. "I felt like the ugly duckling at the prom," she says with a laugh. Bush, she believes, "is running against me in '02." It's easy for Bush to have Ted Kennedy to the White House, Tauscher says--his seat isn't ripe for a Republican takeover. "The centrists are a different bag, and Bush has yet to really deal with...
...lives in Bethesda, Md., and admits that she spoils her sons with electronics, even though she wishes she didn't. Still, she sees the war being fought all around her and counts the ways she has not surrendered. Some neighbors rented their son a limo to go to the prom. It seated 24. "My kids are in a county-run math camp that costs less than $200 for the entire three weeks. My sons' best friend is at golf camp for $4,000. I'm always fighting peer pressure with my sons...
...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...