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...made against The Coast of Good Intentions is exactly that. It wants to tell the story of the coast of good intentions, and this moral undertone wraps the otherwise remarkably perspicacious oeuvre in a virtuous air--something that doesn't quite fit on the rest of Byers' literary turf. Were he intending to give a lesson in ethics by preaching them, these stories could not seem less undeserving of an exemplary attitude that they seem to take. Happy endings don't have to straighten their moral codes to be "good." In fact, normal as they seem, the characters in Byers...
...perhaps dangerously far behind in dealing with the Y2K issue, will spend (see box). However, the question of how widespread and serious Year 2000 failures will be remains a highly contentious one, often pitting those with a Year 2000 fix or book to sell against those with economic turf and reputations to defend...
...Turf] will definitely make us more competitive," said Assistant Coach Gretchen Scheuermann. "The game is much faster, more fluid and you have better control...
Most field hockey programs have made the move to turf already, and Harvard did not win a game on turf until it beat Brown, 3-1, on the last day of the season. It was just the team's second road...
...beyond the after-school clubs and private prayer already allowed under federal guidelines. It insisted that "the people's right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage or traditions on public property, including schools, shall not be infringed." Worried opponents -- including plenty of religious organizations -- envision a turf war between faiths being fought on school grounds. In Istook's version of the future, they say, the most urgent religious freedom may be freedom from religion, not freedom...