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Their ranks swelling to 30 come January, the nation's Republican Governors proclaimed their political independence at their annual convention in Williamsburg, Virginia. The Governors made plain their advice to the new Republican Congress: stick to the economy, stay away from social issues like school prayer, and don't cut the federal budget at the states' expense...
When Bonnie Vautrot realized her daughter was dead bored in school, she decided to take on the system. She became the PTA president at the Williamsburg, Virginia, elementary school and challenged the teachers to challenge the kids. "I would go in and beg the teachers: 'What can I do?' If you have a curriculum that says you're in third grade now, but your child is ready for fourth-grade material, you hit a brick wall." The response, she recalls, was, "Well, obviously you've got nothing better to do. Why don't you teach your kids at home...
...sitting in Coach Restic's plain, slightly-cluttered office in Dillon Field House on a cold, ugly November day. I've covered the football beat all season, attending all the home games and traveling as far as Williamsburg, Va. and Ithaca, NY to see the 3-5 Crimson. Now, I am going to get my due: for the first time all season, I'm going to conduct a long, in-depth personal interview with the greatest football coach in Harvard history and one of the greatest innovators in the history of the sport...
...Harvard-William and Mary football game in Williamsburg, Virginia, was our ultimate destination. Tarek, Sean, and I were reporting on the game; Amanda was shooting the pictures. But somewhere along the way--I think Trenton, N.J.--the means became more important than the end. What can you talk about when you're in a small, enclosed space with lots of time to kill? Only one thing (okay, three): other people. Relationships. Romance...
...weather which accompanied the Harvard women's soccer team to Williamsburg, Va., over the weekend was sad and dreary, and at the surface, so were the Crimson's results...