Word: followed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Opponents also see it as a matter of fairness--not fairness to taxpayers but to students. Officials say kids in traditional schools follow strict requirements--good attendance, decent grades--to become eligible for athletics. They say they have no way to know whether parents would lie to make their home schoolers eligible. And above all, administrators fear that home schoolers, who would parachute in for practice after a day at the house, could undermine a school's sense of community. They argue that a full-time social investment in a school is what entitles kids to play basketball...
These are basketball fundamentals that players like Tinsley have mastered and that the Crimson players have shown in the past. Once the fundamentals consistently fall into place, everything else will follow...
...what's the attraction? Part of it is nostalgia. "Sheepherding harks back to an age when life was less complicated," says Wienir. "There's that ancient sense of pastoral peacefulness." Harried aristocrats from Marie Antoinette onward have unwound by playing peasant, and in flush times the middle classes follow suit...
...CMGI ($23 billion) or Internet Capital Group ($28 billion) can be kept out for long. Or how about Broadcom, or just created Red Hat, Sycamore, Juniper and Akamai, all with valuations north of $15 billion in their rookie year of trading. You have to believe that these companies would follow a Yahoo-like trajectory because of their thin floats...
...starring Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz. The same day (talk about counterprogramming hitting counterprogramming, thus eliminating the point of counterprogramming), Jim Carrey does Andy Kaufman in Milos Forman's Man on the Moon. In this issue, we give you a look at The Talented Mr. Ripley, Anthony Minghella's follow-up to The English Patient that stars Matt Damon and Gwyneth Paltrow in a wicked little tale about murder, sexual identity and Italian palazzos...