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...smartest girl I know can't read. She can't ride a bike without training wheels or count to 100. She can't concentrate on anything for more than a few seconds. Sitting still is a task. Trapped by language, she speaks in fragments where her thoughts come out as indistinguishable hodgepodges of sound. She used to speak with more clarity, but she is frustrated that in her 14 years of life, she has had so many ideas, dreams and opinions that she could not express in words...

Author: By Jennifer Y. Hyman, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Unreading Period | 12/2/1999 | See Source »

Capouch, who shared rookie of the year honors with Stonehouse, rounds out the Big Three for defense, but nobody will ever call him big. Standing 5'8 on his tip-toes, he compensates by being the smartest player on the ice and is always superbly positioned. "We may have to go with a rotation of four defensemen at times this year," Mazzoleni said...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Era Dawns for M. Hockey | 10/27/1999 | See Source »

...trendy selling point. Men's colleges once looked about as viable as castrato choirs. But Wabash, independent since it was founded in 1832, is giving its Georgian campus a $100 million face lift, with modern science and sports facilities, and has just enrolled one of its largest and smartest freshman classes in years. It's a tribute to the college's richly intimate teaching traditions: its fewer than 1,000 students, from all economic backgrounds, often learn as much over dinner and wine tastings at professors' houses as they do in the classroom. But it may also reflect the fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In the Company of Men | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...While it acknowledges that rounding up traffickers doesn?t necessarily eliminate the flow of narcotics into the U.S., the DEA is hoping to degrade the effectiveness of the traffickers. "They?re hoping that successive waves of arrests drain the talent pool available to the cartels, eliminating their smartest and most innovative operatives and making it easier to take them down," says Shannon. At the same time, the Colombians are also urging the U.S. to curb drug consumption here. "They?re telling Americans that drug money spent here is paying for a lot of violence down there," says Shannon. "And fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Give You Drug Lords, You Give Us Aid | 10/13/1999 | See Source »

Capouch, despite his diminutive 5'8, 165-pound frame, proved himself one of the smartest Crimson backliners and notched three goals...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MEN'S HOCKEY CAN'T OVERCOME 0-8-1 ECAC START, NOW FACES TOMASSONI'S RESIGNATION | 10/6/1999 | See Source »

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