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...school year is upon us, we all wonder what goodies this summer will bring us. It’s time for a glance into the Harvard Crimson sports board’s crystal ball...

Author: By Alexander M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March to the Sea: Predicting the Summer in Sports | 5/23/2001 | See Source »

...future of Norton's middle-school basketball league, the room cleared out when talk turned to Item B on the evening's agenda--the district's scores on the state's tough, new standardized exam. Says Richard Zusman, one of the district's curriculum coordinators: "It really makes you wonder what's important to these parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Parents Drop Out | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...refreshing to read that people are realizing that kids need to be kids. I cringe when I see small children walking home from elementary school with full backpacks. Play and time to be creative and wonder and wander, and time to be with family members, are so important for children's intellectual growth--and they wouldn't hurt us adults either. MARLA B. RAMIREZ Ukiah, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 21, 2001 | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...stranger to the other half. Which was perhaps his way of keeping himself amused. He often had to eat two dinners: once, in early evening after work, with his in-town woman, and a few hours later - after "working late at the office" - with his wife. No wonder he was fat. Lie-management is intricate work, as every philanderer knows. But my friend domesticated the danger, so to speak. He possessed an eerie serenity, and the twinkle of a man with a secret. He saw the same movies twice. He had to remember which movies he had seen with which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Green: Polygamy and Its Discontents | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

...have followed the case of Tom Green with some wonder. Green, a self-proclaimed Mormon living in the Utah desert, has five wives and 30 children (the Mormon Church excommunicated Green in 1980 for his belief in polygamy). He has just been convicted of bigamy in Provo, and could get 25 years - five years for each wife - for doing what all self-respecting male waterbuck, eland, and gnu do as a matter of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom Green: Polygamy and Its Discontents | 5/21/2001 | See Source »

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