Word: wising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...neutralize Savane with 6'8 junior Tim Coleman, who is averaging 14 points through the last three games, and possibly 6'8 freshman Onnie Mayshak, who started at center last Tuesday against Marist and scored 6 points. But while Mayshak and Coleman may be able to match Savane size-wise, they will face a significant challenge trying score on him inside and beat him to the ball off the glass...
...over labor and environmental raises the question: Are the President's concerns genuine or merely politically expedient? "A lot of Clinton's concern is genuine," says Dowell. "As the mayor of Seattle noted, many Clinton administration officials were protesters themselves not so long ago." And, says Dowell, he is wise to acknowledge the misgivings harbored by many of the protesters. "Clinton accomplished something critical in his speech," says Dowell. "He made it clear that he understands that economic success is not equally distributed among the nations, and that he is more than willing to address that problem." Now he needs...
...Avalon. This time his alter ego is a smart, sweet-souled teenager named Ben (Ben Foster) who, having lived all his life in a Jewish enclave, is astonished to discover that most of the world is not, after all, Jewish. That's particularly true of Sylvia (the uncannily cool, wise and beautiful Rebekah Johnson), who is one of the token blacks in his newly integrated school. Their relationship is handled with great delicacy; this is a friendship that yearns to be, deserves to be, richer. But--and this may be the most poignant thing about Liberty Heights--these kids...
...cousin Aaron--he of the wallpaper tattoos--concurs. Aaron, who was tattooed after he turned 18, said, "When I think of some of the dumb stuff I wanted to do when I was 15, I'm glad someone stopped me." (But even wise Aaron clearly can't imagine any drawbacks to his future as a 40-year-old man with a Yoda tattoo.) Ron Stiehl, the proprietor of my local piercing and tattoo parlor, says that for kids who want to try out a tattoo, artists can apply henna designs, which last about three weeks...
...flaky mom, restless with unrealized dreams. A wise child, stubbornly asserting the reality principle. An old car and an open road at the end of which all the problems they're running away from reassert themselves, largely in the form of feckless males...