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Freshman Alex Kurmakov and sophomore Eric Matuszak packed a solid punch on the sprints and were one half of the 200-yard free relay team that took first at Easterns. The rest of the freestylers came up to the standard set by the leaders; it was not uncommon to see Harvard aquamen challenging each other for the lead...
...many innovative therapies that Clark, a Ph.D. in education, has brought to his school. Bowling Park is where the rhetoric of "standing for children" moves beyond talk. If children are to be rescued, the reasoning goes, who is better equipped to do so than the elementary school, a solid institution already in the business? Yet to rescue children, one must start early--even before birth. And to rescue children, whole families must be rescued along with them--hence the transformation of the neighborhood school into a "caring community." It may sound like a platitude, but it is in fact...
...quite reasonable. "People are scared of a civil war," adds Zarakhovich. "That is the reason for all this talk of coalitions and national unity governments. No matter who wins, Yeltsin or Zyuganov, the loser will continue to oppose them, and in Russia, where the legal structures are not as solid as those in the United States, a civil war is possible." Chris McKenna
...also sniped in print about Franklin's insistence on sending thousands of Arabic-language New Testaments into Saudi Arabia while the general was trying hard to honor Islamic sensibilities during Operation Desert Storm.) But in hot spots like the Rwandan capital of Kigali, the outfit's reputation is solid...
COURAGE UNDER FIRE (July 12). Denzel Washington, who 12 years ago played a G.I. under investigation in A Soldier's Story, is the righteous sleuth this time in a Desert Storm inquiry involving Meg Ryan. Solid stars, both. But when a trailer revs up its heroic music and asks, "What is courage? What is honor? What is truth?" you may ask yourself: Am I quite noble enough to see this movie...