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...eight days after Easter and I'm still giddily making my way through a lovingly prepared basket provided by my boyfriend, filled with faux grass and enough sugar to send an entire kindergarten class into shock. The springtime candies - chocolate bunnies, jelly beans and the delightfully ersatz marshmallow Peeps - are an annual rite of passage for me and my dentist. "Oh, hello, Jessica. I see you're here for your traditional post-Easter cleaning?" Others, however tend to view my basket fixation with some concern: How, they seem to be wondering, can a vaguely grown-up person consume so much...
...mystery. If Dick can run wild and get into Princeton too, then why isn't he out there running his little head off? That play has real value won't surprise most parents. That their kid horses around less than they did when they were young probably doesn't shock them either. The puzzle is, Where did all the playtime...
Another Sky is not without its faults. One can only take so many saccharine, happy, cloyingly idyllic tracks before going into insulin shock. As light evanescence is followed by more of the same, one yearns for some display of brutally raw feeling. Alas, sweetness and light is all that Altan has to offer, their skilled musical maneuverings failing to stray from the same emotional note. But all things told, while Another Sky may not be the pot of gold at the end of the musical rainbow, it’s still a fine piece o’ work...
...news didn't come as a complete shock. When Davidson started out, money ran freely. "The mood was, 'Gosh, Dell has oodles of loot,'" he says. "'Let's just spend, spend, spend.'" But last spring, when the dotcom bubble burst, everything changed. It was harder to get anything more than a bare-bones computer to work on, and training was halted for several months. "You could practically hear the screws being tightened," says Davidson...
...homicide. (Andy Williams, the accused killer of two students at Santee High School, told friends he was despondent over a relationship at the time of the shooting.) Grownups may know enough to brace themselves for at least some relationship difficulties, but for kids, everything about romance comes as a shock--straight to the heart...