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...Sara Hansard, 49, a journalist from Arlington, Va., adopted a 1 1/2-year-old girl from China more than two years ago. She faced the strong objection of her mother, "who always imagined me getting married and having kids the normal way." Mom has come around, but since she lives in an assisted-living facility 90 miles away, she can't be much help. So Sara has organized an informal network of single moms in her area, who are on call to baby-sit in emergencies and who trade child-rearing tips...
Having a child later in life is rewarding, Sara says, but she knows her choice is not universally popular. She says she has lost out on jobs because some bosses wouldn't accommodate her needs as a single mom. Then there was the stranger on the subway who struck up a conversation and when she found out Hansard was a single mom, railed that what she was doing was morally wrong. Sara told her off. "I wanted to be a parent, and in my case, I happened not to be married," she says. "I'm not apologizing to anyone...
iCAST also has a "track of the day" (a recent pick by the alternative-rock duo Tegan and Sara was particularly good). In addition, the site held a "Land Your Band" contest in which groups were rated by iCAST users, with the highest-rated act (the rock group Laughing Colors, based in Annapolis, Md.) winning meetings with major-label executives. "I kind of laugh at all this Napster stuff," says Laughing Colors lead singer Dave Tieff. "At our stage, offering free tracks makes sense. We're trying to get noticed, and promotions like this are a tool." Tieff says sales...
...being, subtle jazz languishing on the breeze before fading into silence. The simple home of Stanley (Ari Appel '03) and Stella (Christine Nichols '01) Kowalski, rendered in a pastiche of gritty realism and abstract whimsy by designer Pete Wilson '99, becomes a battle ground where Stanley and Blanche DuBois (Sara Newbold '00), Stella's indigent sister, square off in a frantic struggle for survival...
...proctors] know about it somewhat, but they choose to ignore it," added Sara L. Cooper, a SSP student in Matthews Hall...