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...pauses as she notices a police car following beside the team bus. “I think we might be getting pulled over,” she says, “unless...oh, it’s a police escort.” For this prefrosh, who hopes to be on the Wheaties box one day and will don a good luck shin guard strap she’s had since childhood during the Olympics, it’s all about enjoying her 15 minutes of fame...
...financial stability; in less than a month, she will have their third child. Thomas was the primary wage earner, although Cheri worked as a part-time school psychologist until Sept. 11. She doesn't see how she can go back to work with an infant and two toddlers unless she hires full-time help. "Please, come step into my shoes for a minute," she says, her eyes flat and unblinking. "I am not looking to go to Tahiti...
Advisors always say that students should not write a thesis unless they really want to do so. If honors in general studies is eliminated, many students will suffer—both those whose work doesn’t fit some departments’ guidelines, and others who will feel pressured to write theses merely to obtain honors...
...unless other-former-CEO Jeffrey Skilling, who as of Monday was still due to not only show up for his date this week but "speak freely" (this according to his spokesman), falls down on his knees and admits everything, no one will be pokey-bound over Enron for quite some time. Truly informational hearings, with regulators standing in for villains, won't make very good television. But the longer lawmakers are forced to ask about preventing the next Enron instead of punishing the current one, the better chance the hearings have of producing the new laws, new rules...
...Tansy learns the rules of the new Asia soon enough: do not accept drugs from men on strange motorcycles unless they're offering cocaine; do hook up as soon as possible with whatever group is desperate enough to accept you. And she starts down the backpacking trail with equal measures of complaint and courage. Her journey is prosaic in the extreme, filled with hearty Aussie backpackers, haughty French, outwardly friendly but inscrutable native guides, beachside bars in Cambodia, beachside bars in Thailand, etc. Although Tansy enjoys it, the strongest sensation the reader is likely to get from her trip...