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Linden's smaller (6'0, 180 lbs.), but he's also more agile. He can scramble and avoid the rush better than Wilford (6'3, 220), and he is a legitimate running threat as well. Linden's better at running the option and is more spontaneous, although he sometimes tries to do too much, as in The Game...
Kalil, who was third on the team in scoring with five goals and six assists in 1998, keyed a Crimson offensive rush late in the first half that answered Vermont's only tally of the game...
Rock's gift is this: he can make hard truths sound funny. It's an invaluable talent in a disinformation age in which it has become more and more difficult to talk about things as they actually are. There's a near constant rush toward metaphorization, toward transmuting events into mediagenic terms. Oral sex isn't about sex, some pundit or other tells us, it's about honesty. Snorting coke isn't about drugs, it's about the media. Shooting up your high school class isn't about gun control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through...
Your story "Is Any Place Safe?" reported on the rush by schools to install security measures [NATION, Aug. 23]. Now we have constant high-tech surveillance, security fences, uniforms... So what are we teaching our children? How to live in a police state. Undoubtedly these school-security measures are instituted out of fear. Concerns for our children's safety are well founded. In being driven by fears while forgetting to safeguard civil liberties, however, we may reach a time when the term "the land of the free and the home of the brave" no longer applies. TONY KALENAK Odessa, Texas...
...their own distress will miss out on these significant developments. A good strategy with an older child is to help him take charge, says New Jersey psychologist Nancy Devlin. "Ask, 'What is it about school that bothers you?' Then ask, 'What can you do to solve this problem?' Parents rush in to solve problems that children can solve themselves...