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Following its best campaign in nine years last season, the Harvard field hockey team chose to increase the difficulty of its schedule. No more Rhode Island (an 8-12 team last year) or California (one of the few schools that actually plays out West...
Imagine that Rhode Island produced music that everyone in the U.S. listened to. That would be kind of surprising. Well, the triumph of Cantopop is quite a bit more astonishing. From a region of some 7 million people--smaller in population than North Carolina, smaller in size than Rhode Island--comes pop music, in Hong Kong's Cantonese language, that dominates the Chinese-speaking world. Cantopop stars are mobbed in Beijing and Taipei, in London and Las Vegas. Last Christmas, veteran mesmerizer Leslie Cheung gave a sold-out concert at Caesars Palace, where tickets went...
...later, won a seat in Parliament in South Africa's first all-race elections. DIED. DIANA GOLDEN BROSNIHAN, 38, avid skier who lost a leg to cancer at age 12 but persevered and won a gold medal in disabled skiing at the 1988 Calgary Olympics; of cancer, in Providence, Rhode Island. Brosnihan persuaded the U.S. Ski Association to allow disabled skiers to compete against able-bodied skiers, and in 1997 she was inducted into the Women's Sports Foundation International Hall of Fame. DIED. MICHAEL DERTOUZOS, 64, inventor, author and computer visionary who advocated making computers accessible...
...number at just 345,000. True, even the largest estimates still put the home schooled at only 4% of the total K-12 population--but that would mean more kids learn at home than attend all the public schools in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming combined...
Beasley acknowledges that Wheeler and Berman, who have refused to talk to the media, made it clear in their discussions that they wanted just one child. What's more, notes Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode, "theirs was a very extensive contract. There were 50 clauses providing for every contingency," including the case of a multiple pregnancy, a real possibility given that three donor eggs fertilized by Wheeler's sperm were implanted in Beasley's womb. The contract required Beasley to honor the couple's decision about whether to have a selective reduction, the termination of one or more fetuses...