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...therein lies the smoldering secret conflict of Junior Parents' Weekend, one that during Freshman Parents' Weekend barely lit a spark. Many of us are primarily concerned with our academics and extracurriculars, thinking of our social lives as outlets for fun and relaxation. Many of our parents, on the other hand, have a different agenda. More often than not, they are secretly working on the unspoken but ill-concealed project of marrying us off. This project heightens during graduate school and the years following, but for many parents, junior year is when the hint of the notion first appears...
Later, Neree established a credit union after noticing the local need to "anchor the community and spark economic growth...
...fires set by the Aborigines in the movie of The Right Stuff. At the high end of the dark, the light from the astronauts' capsule winks as it orbits the earth, while down on the earth itself, the bonfires of the Aborigines glow white and spark...
Other highlights were a powerful break-away slam-dunk by Mike Scott that sent the crowd into a huge uproar. The dunk also pulled the Crimson to within 14 with 14 minutes to play. Yet this spark was quickly dashed out by a nine-point run by Princeton...
Given the fact that the education President has helped spark a national debate on whether oral sex constitutes cheating on your spouse, parents may feel the need to turn the discussion to simpler moral questions. "We focus not on what's legal or illegal about his actions but on the fact that if he did it, it was wrong," says Chicagoan Ginnie Rugis, whose daughters are 13 and 7. Even the seven-year-old was brought in on that discussion. "We talk about impulse control. She compared it to when she is in the library at school but she really...