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...attended a small public high school that was like one of those cheap '80s movies with a homecoming queen and a big parade. I was homecoming queen. My freshman year. And then I withdrew from the social scene. I was a competitive ice skater for 14 years and so I didn't spend any time in town. I'll go back now and see that there's no one on the streets and then find out the entire town is at the high school for the huge basketball tournament...
Many of the teams here at Harvard go on a training trip over part of the winter recess and there are a lot of misconceptions about those trips by the public at large...
...student asked whether the Trust committee's application process or its minutes would be made public...
Home-schooling is a tough issue in the field of education. On the one hand, it's possible to understand why parents--for either educational or religious reasons--might want to teach their own children, rather than sending them to a poorly-funded public school or to an institution which does not promote and may in fact ignore their personal beliefs. Home-schooling provides control in a society where parents often feel powerless. And it may seem like a logical extension of that control for those parents to send their children to a home-schoolers' college with...
Tripp's lawyers argue that the wiretaps are inadmissible since they became public only after she had an immunity deal with Ken Starr. But Maryland prosecutors made a strong case for admissibility Thursday on the strength of Monica's testimony. Lewinsky said a conversation, reprinted in Newsweek, took place December 22, 1997 - before Tripp reached an immunity deal with Starr, and afterTripp's lawyer had told her that such taping was illegal. Any recording after the deal was reached will probably be deemed inadmissible. But Lewinsky maintains she remembers specifically that it occurred before then because "it was a pretty...