Word: 10th
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...Saturday, Fox News will celebrate its 10th anniversary on the air. To mark the occasion Rupert Murdoch - Fox News founder, NewsCorp managing director and last of the media titans - spoke to TIME Managing Editor Richard Stengel about bias in the news, what MySpace means to the future of his business and his most trusted sources of daily information...
...Japan for three years. I speak the language," said Daniel Seals, a 34-year-old African-American from Chicago (billed in advance of his call to the Paris crowd as possibly the next Barack Obama) who is trying to unseat Mark Kirk, the three-term Republican representative from Illinois' 10th Congressional District, in the city's tony North Shore suburbs. To the Americans in Europe, Seals was pitch-perfect, insisting that "Rumsfeld needs to go" and saying that it was time to overhaul energy policies, since "we are putting billions of tax dollars into supporting the oil companies...
...achievement gap, a nationally-seen disparity in the test scores of white and minority students, has been a problem in the Cambridge Public Schools system. On the 2005-2006 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, only three percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the 10th grade English language arts exam, while 30 percent of white students scored in this range. Only seven percent of African American students scored in the advanced level on the mathematics exam, while 42 percent of white students did. School Committee member Nancy Walser, who proposed the series of public forums...
...disband the threat.Although it was the Huskies who got the upper hand on the scoreboard, it was Harvard who had the most to celebrate. The Crimson not only exhibited a focus it has been chasing since the opening of its season but also held the nation’s 10th-best team—a team that had racked up 13 goals against its last two non-conference opponents—to a single goal.Harvard looks to maintain its defensive prowess this Saturday when it travels to Providence, R.I., to face Ivy League opponent Brown.—Staff writer...
...idea. I must admit I'm the first to get swallowed up by Donna's desert dream - a place where a draped batik dress or a poplin tent dress can seem so essential. But when the show was over and I stepped back out onto the gritty wetness of 10th street I suddenly missed the Donna Karan who gave women those desperately needed urban staples...