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...kids from the creek" began in Utah about four years ago. Volunteers working with street kids and runaways began to notice a new breed of homeless teen who didn't have the survival and social skills other teens had. But long before public awareness began to rise, Brenda Jensen, a co-director at Hope Organization, took runaway boys into her home. She fled the FLDS 30 years ago and married a fellow exile from another polygamist group...
...Houser said, “but the level of competition is way higher. I was pleased with how I placed in the [six-kilometer race] because I’ve never run that distance before.” The lone sophomore racing for Harvard, Brenda Cohen, was 105th, while freshmen Hillary May and Alison Liewen finished together in 112th and 113th, respectively. Senior Eliza Gardner rounded out the Crimson group, finishing 141st. For the men, another large field meant more conservative racing, especially as freshmen adjusted to the longer eight-kilometer race from the five kilometers covered in high school...
...billing with a booming voice, gyrating hips and appearances on American Bandstand and the Tonight Show. She faded in the late '50s, but her records, including Drugstore Rock 'n' Roll and the Top 40 hit Will You Willyum, paved the way for future female rockers like Brenda Lee. Martin was 67 and had cancer...
...Emmy and an Oscar last season (for portraying Queens Elizabeth I and II) after having played the Ur-antiheroine in Prime Suspect. (Driver, Parker and Sedgwick won Emmy nominations this year--as did Mirren, for Prime Suspect's final installment.) Closer creator James Duff never expected Sedgwick to play Brenda--nor, at first, did Sedgwick. Then, she says, "my manager said to me, 'It's a little bit like Prime Suspect.'" These shows give non-ingenues a rare chance to play interesting women. Grace may make iffy choices, but, says Hunter, "she's really just somebody who says...
...have to find a common humanity with them," she says. "The Marquise de Merteuil [in Liaisons] invented herself to survive in a world where women were used and discarded on a daily basis." Even in The Closer, a cop show strongly driven by the crime of the week, Brenda's loyalty and drive for justice are intangibly, but decisively, female--"a mother with her cubs," as Sedgwick puts...