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Last Friday, when the state released the most recent round of Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test scores, there was some self-congratulation in the districts that improved. Cambridge was one of those districts—10th grade scores increased by 21 and 27 percent in the English and math sections, respectively. Superintendent of Schools Bobbie J. D’Alessandro hailed this accomplishment, writing in a press release that “We are very pleased with the overall MCAS results...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MCAS Success Deceptive | 11/8/2001 | See Source »

Offensively, the team will look to junior Carly Haggard, who scored 21 goals in 27 games last year. Her 36 points were the 10th best in the league in 2000-2001. Last year’s Ivy League Rookie of the Year, sophomore Sarah Clark, and first team All-Ivy forward senior Kristin King will also work to provide offensive power for the team...

Author: By Tamara P. Miller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hockey Faces Stiff Competition | 11/6/2001 | See Source »

...Agassi's second. EXECUTED. GERALD MITCHELL, 33, for a murder he committed when he was 17; in Huntsville, Texas. Mitchell, convicted of killing two people in 1985, spent nearly half his life on death row. Despite his professed contrition and pleas from human-rights groups, Mitchell became the 10th person executed in Texas for a murder committed as a minor. DIED. BERTIE MEE, 82, former championship-winning manager of one of England's best-known football clubs, Arsenal; in London. A stern disciplinarian who left most of the football tactics to his coaches, Mee managed the team from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Time | 11/5/2001 | See Source »

...Maybe the Yankee ghosts finally got through security. Rivera mowed the D-Backs down in the top of the 10th. Then Kim, pitching in his third inning, got two easy outs to start the bottom half. Up stepped shortstop Derek Jeter. The Kalamazoo Clipper, who was hitting all of .067 for the series, fell behind 0-2. He got the count up to 3-2, fouled a couple of pitches off and then took a Kim delivery to the short porch in right field. He rounded the bases at 12:04 a.m. with the second and decisive homer. Double shots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Series for the Ages | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

...After an uneventful 10th, Arizona loaded the bases in the 11th, only to have Yankee second baseman Alfonso Soriano rob Reggie Sanders with a diving stab to stave off a run. It was now past midnight in the city that never sleeps. If they could have, the D-Backs would have hailed a cab. In the bottom of the 12th, designated hitter Chuck Knoblauch led off with a double, his first hit of the Series. Home run hero Brosius pushed him to second with a sacrifice. Then Soriano smacked a single to right. Knoblauch raced for home. Sanders throw beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A World Series for the Ages | 11/4/2001 | See Source »

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