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...dining-room table, Isiah, an eight-year-old with a toothy grin, carefully creases paper airplanes, enlisting his mother to staple them together. "Nobody makes them as well as you," she says. Can this be the same foster baby that Barbara Harris carried home from the hospital--a stiff-limbed infant who couldn't sleep more than 15 minutes at a stretch, who would wake screaming and vomiting? "He was a bundle of nerves," recalls Harris, who adopted Isiah and three of his siblings, all born with crack cocaine in their systems. "He had the shakes. All you could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benevolent Bribery--Or Racism? | 8/23/1999 | See Source »

...With a lot of tourists chasing a few leaves, the competition is beginning to get stiff. The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce says that everything's fine - you just might want to come by to view the trees a week or two earlier this year - and recently took out ads in 11 magazines to reinforce the message. The state of Maine will post weekly foliage updates beginning September 15. In Vermont, state officials smugly point out that the drought hasn't hit their state as hard, especially in the northern half. Meanwhile, Rhode Island, suffering through its worst summer for rain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Brown Has New England Feeling Blue | 8/17/1999 | See Source »

...program staff say strict rules and stiff consequences for the students, most of whom are still in high school and are under 21, are necessary to keep students out of serious trouble...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SSP Students Handle Restrictions, Discipline | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

...conduct rules for SSP students are considerably tighter than those for the rest of the summer school. Students are not allowed to visit upperclass Houses or to leave the campus overnight. Just attending a party where alcohol is being served also carries stiff consequences...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SSP Students Handle Restrictions, Discipline | 8/13/1999 | See Source »

Under current law, individuals who take money from an IRA to make a charitable contribution--which includes those made to colleges and universities faced a stiff tax penalty...

Author: By Joshua H. Simon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tax Reform Legislation Pleases Educators | 8/6/1999 | See Source »

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