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...animation a market that will always expand? Or was the Simba spectacular the apogee of a trend? Or a glorious fluke? Disney's last three fully animated films to hit theaters--Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Hercules, all released after Katzenberg's rancorous departure from Disney and his start-up of DreamWorks--have earned together just a bit more than The Lion King...
Experts agree that concentrated poverty is likely to produce more kids with more severe emotional and physical disabilities. But Sister Kathleen Feeley, retired president of Baltimore's College of Notre Dame who was appointed to fill the court-created post of special education administrator in Baltimore's public schools, estimates that 6,000 to 8,000 children have been inappropriately identified as disabled. John Mohamed, who until last February was principal of the city's Southeast Middle School, believes only 55 to 60 of the 160 special-ed kids at his school truly required special education. The rest, he says...
...gradually Hernandez, whose sister participated in ROTC at Notre Dame, warmed to the program and he now has his eye set on an exciting military job after graduation...
...losing seasons (including a 1-10 record in 1984) and criticism that he favored Christian players over less devout teammates. Gradually, though, McCartney put together a winning streak, leading to a spectacular 1989 season that earned him five national Coach of the Year honors and culminated in beating Notre Dame at the Orange Bowl in 1991. In that year he signed a dream 15-year contract with Colorado, worth $400,000 in a good year, plus bonuses...
DIED. JUDITH MERRIL, 74, science-fiction dame of peerless anthologies and foreboding novels such as Shadow on the Hearth; of heart failure; in Toronto. One of the first female S-F writers, Merril voiced new--but still bleak--concerns, writing, for example, about a mother's love for her severely deformed baby...