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...penalty kill, Harvard’s concentrated forward lines will be tested against BU. And with star Terrier netminder Sean Fields covering the crease, fans should have a good idea whether Mazzoleni’s emphasis on the importance of lunch-pail mentality brings big rewards or (temporary) ruin...
...many Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade float rides through Herald Square with unfashionable earmuffs, chapped lips, fake smile, beauty-pageant wave and a runny nose from the cold is enough to permanently ruin a pop diva’s persona—as I have known no diva to benefit from lip-synching in sub zero Manhattan temperatures while accompanied by nerdy high school band and dance team. Nevertheless, stars seem undeterred by the volatility of the holiday consumer base as they continue to market themselves better than most toys on shelves (unless of courses they are promoting...
...will, a broken-down beach town on a quietly nonspecific stretch of the East Coast. The town was once dominated by Cosey's Hotel and Resort, a swanky getaway with "more handsome single men per square foot than anyplace outside Atlanta." But Cosey's is now a Gothic ruin, and Bill Cosey, its handsome, charismatic playa-patriarch, is long dead...
...yearns to escape to New York with Bobby, his American boyfriend, but a powerful sense of duty compels him to stay in India and go through with an arranged marriage. Although Bobby loves Mahvi for his Jain spirituality, he hates him for allowing the dogma of his faith to ruin both their lives. On the other hand, although Mahvi’s life as a married man would be a lie, he would feel equally oppressed in liberal New York, where his open relationship with the man he loved would be a sin against his faith...
Which raises the possibility that Caperton may, in his well-intentioned effort to ameliorate schools, ruin his main instrument for doing so. "I'm worried they may be asking one test to carry too many buckets of water," says Fred Hargadon, a former College Board vice president. Caperton believes the SAT should be a tool of social change as well as of social measurement--that it should serve communitarian ends even as it tries to give reliable, valid scores to individual kids and colleges. "This [new] test is really going to create a revolution in the schools," he says...