1.   Before Penn could make an impact on the court, he had to do it in the classroom, where he admitted he went astray last spring.

2.   A Commerce Department report released Friday gave another sign of economic slowing, showing that more unsold goods had piled up last spring than had initially been estimated.

3.   So when Congress approved federal tax cuts last spring, it indirectly pushed down state tax rates.

4.   Twice last spring, Peter J. Troy was detained by the police, and twice he was admitted to psychiatric hospital wards, Nassau County officials said Tuesday.