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...happy families are alike, wrote Tolstoy, but unhappy ones are unhappy in their own way. Perhaps none was unhappier last Thursday than the family of Eileen Franklin-Lipsker, who took the stand in municipal court in Redwood City, Calif., to accuse her father, George Franklin Sr., of sexually molesting and then beating to death her best friend, Susan Nason, in her presence more than 20 years...
...squad set out to the Redwood Shores Regatta in Northern California this past weekend trying to catch the Princeton Tigers, who two weeks ago handed the Black and White its first loss in over two seasons. But Princeton took top honors at Redwood while Radcliffe took third in both varsity and JV competition...
...NOTEBOOK: Next week, the Crimson will battle Penn and Navy in Philadelphia for the Adams Cup. Penn has been racing well this year, edging out Brown yesterday in the finals of the Redwood Shores Regatta in California. Navy is also traditionally strong in the running of the Adams Cup. The once-questionable Crimson is gaining confidence with every race and will be the favorite next week on the Schuykill River...
Bailey's request signaled a new skirmish in a battle for the minds of Laytonville's young. The townspeople (most draw their living from logging) began to buy ads in the Laytonville Observer to protest Seuss. Said one: "To teach our children that harvesting redwood trees is bad is not the education we need." With the second ad, says School Superintendent Brian Buckley, "we knew we had a problem." Last week a school-district committee voted 6 to 1 to resist censorship and keep The Lorax on the required list. Next week the school board gets a whack...
...with a spidery backrest of hickory spindles. But his genius is essentially Oriental, akin to that of Zen rock gardening and Oriental flower arranging. Nakashima selects the exact natural object needed to serve a particular purpose. For a recent table, he used an 8-ft. cross section of redwood root. The wild energy of the wood, complete with cracks and holes, strains outward, as if it were trying to dissolve back into the ground. But the wood is held together in places with 4-in.-wide butterfly-shaped splints of walnut, Nakashima's signature method of prompting the ancient...