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...quick pace of the songs and the energetic guitar riffs would be appropriate at the next on-campus party but do not camouflage the serious tone of the lyrics, which would not seem out of place in the newest piece of teen-angst literature, if such literature were more literate...
...Gilmore Girls (WB, 8 p.m.) Let's be honest. You are not going to watch this show. You will be watching "Friends" instead. But here is what you will be missing: the teen-heavy WB network growing up (ever so slightly) with a gently funny, unsentimental comedy-drama about the tug-of-war between a 32-year-old mother and her 16-year-old daughter. Lauren Graham ("M.Y.O.B.") is charming and comic as a single mom, with parent issues of her own, trying to hold her life together while managing a New England inn full of slightly loopy characters. (Between...
...During a 90-minute crisis conference call earlier this week, House Republicans scattered across the nation mostly pledged support for Speaker Dennis Hastert despite the leadership's clumsiness in recognizing the implications of former Rep. Mark Foley's inappropriate interest in teen-age male pages. Foley has resigned in disgrace and is seeking treatment for alcoholism, but House members and their aides tell TIME that they fear new revelations are coming. On the conference call, a rank-and-file member asked about a report, circulating in the leadership since at least Friday, that Foley had showed up drunk...
...Fuji is far cleaner, and with the toilets at all 48 locations on the mountain set to be eco-friendly by March 2007, it could become almost pristine again. Noguchi hopes the effort will permanently change Japan's attitude toward its mountains, just as taking up climbing as a teen changed his own perspective. "We must have a different environmental consciousness," he says. "I want to make [Fuji] a model for other mountains. I want to change Japan from Mount Fuji...
DIED. Maureen Daly, 85, author of the breathy, happy 1942 teen novel Seventeenth Summer, who is credited with launching the genre of modern young-adult literature; in Palm Desert, Calif. The best-selling book, which Daly wrote when she was a teenager, detailed a romance between two high schoolers in a Midwestern lakeside village. Of its origins, she said, "I was so wildly happy about love and life at a particular time of my existence, I wanted to get all that fleeting excitement down on paper before it passed or I forgot the true feelings...