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...March 10, 2004, the Boston Globe ran an article on the increasing numbers of high school students who are educated at home. The article stated that although home schooling was once the domain of religious fundamentalists, today many moderate parents choose to educate their children at home through twelfth grade, and then send them to regular colleges. Carey’s family was featured in the article as part of the trend, and her mother, Maureen Carey, was described as a Quaker and a pacifist...

Author: By Laura H. Owen, | Title: An Unwilling Posterchild | 4/15/2004 | See Source »

Kaveney scored in the twelfth minute. Throughout the game she played a key role on both ends of the field and in getting the ball from one end of the field to the other...

Author: By Nathaniel A. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Holds Off Terriers in Overtime Thriller | 4/8/2004 | See Source »

...produces an abundance of them. Begun as a speech delivered to the Royal Australasian College of Dental Surgeons in 1998, Trumble's book artfully deconstructs the smile "into more lines than are in the new map with the augmentation of the Indies," as Malvolio is described in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Trumble watches it arc through art, anthropology and advertising - "a fabulously versatile contortion," he concludes, "capable of many meanings." Its current ascendancy, he argues, has come about through advances in dental science - allowing the smile to loom larger, and toothier, than ever - coupled with the advent of photography...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Lip-Reading | 3/30/2004 | See Source »

...funny, intense, egocentric boy of 27, with a flat nose and bullet head ? he has very little humor and seems quite unaware of anything except the development of his own evident talents." His assessment of Olivier and his wife Vivien Leigh, whom he directed in Twelfth Night in 1955, is typically memorable: "He is a born autocrat and must always be right ? He dares too confidently (and will always carry an undiscriminating audience with him) while she hardly dares at all and is terrified of overreaching her technique and doing anything that she has not killed the spontaneity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Man of Parts | 3/14/2004 | See Source »

John Darnielle, the man behind the Mountain Goats, performs from his enormous catalogue of emotional, acoustic guitar-driven songs. The Goats’ latest offering, We Shall All Be Healed, marks their twelfth album in less than ten years, and that’s not including EPs, singles and other releases. Come early for the local roots-oriented rock of Choo Choo Larouge and the reflective folk strumming of Manishevitz. Tickets $12. 9:30 p.m. T. T. the Bear’s Place...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Happening | 3/5/2004 | See Source »

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