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...scholar, clique leader and occasional megabitch--a real Heather from Heathers--but with a family tragedy the movie reveals only near the end. Colin is the basketball star, who's under pressure from his dad, an Elvis impersonator (could you make this stuff up?), to win a college scholarship. "Otherwise," Dad warns, "it's the Army." Jake is the loner. He'll be handsome once he grows out of his braces and that awful acne, but for now he's content to muse on his misfit fate. Hannah, whose artistic impulses alienate her from her classmates, has dreams of moving...
...individual interpretation of the Bible. Rogers responded that Baptists can believe what they wish, ''but those who work for us ought to reflect what the great majority of us want taught.'' The moderates intend to keep fighting on, convinced, as one put it, that ''religious dictatorship cannot halt biblical scholarship.'' Moore insists that when lay Baptists realize what is happening, ''you're going to see a sure-enough rising-up.'' But time may work against the moderates. Emory University Sociologist Nancy Ammerman finds growing Fundamentalism among younger Southern Baptists. Given the nationwide and global involvement of the denomination, the implications...
...from the blazing virtuosic ideal. Yet for concert audiences between the wars, Schnabel was among the foremost of pianists, his name synonymous with Beethoven's. His recitals of the piano sonatas were like religious services, and his editions of the music were admired for their combination of scholarship and pragmatism. The concerto recordings were made between 1932 and 1935, at the height of Schnabel's interpretive powers. Probity is the operative word here; the German notion of ''depth'' had no greater exponent than Schnabel. (A footnote in Schnabel's sonata edition could ramble for several inches discussing the difference between...
Kylie Miraldi has come from California to celebrate her 18th birthday tonight. She'll be going to San Jose State on a volleyball scholarship next year. Her father, who looks a little like Superman, is on the dance floor with one of her sisters; he turns out to be Dean Miraldi, a former offensive lineman with the Philadelphia Eagles. When Kylie was 13, her parents took her on a hike in Lake Tahoe, Calif. "We discussed what it means to be a teenager in today's world," she says. They gave her a charm for her bracelet--a lock...
...current focus of the foundation is its Centre of Memory and Dialogue, which is producing an interactive archive of Mandela's life and times, with the goal of applying his lessons to critical social issues. In 2003 Mandela founded the Mandela-Rhodes Foundation, which is centered on a remarkable scholarship program for African students but is aimed even more broadly at promoting leadership in Africa. If our story inspires you to find out more about Mandela's life or to get involved in his work, visit www.nelsonmandela.org...