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...evening rush hour in New York City. 42nd St. was packed, and I was hoping I would make the bus. His voice came out of the crowd...
...progress of Cambridge schools. He said that the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS) graduation rates, proclaimed as “among the highest in the state” on the district’s Web site, mask the fact that Cambridge is in the “42nd percentile in the listing of all public schools in the commonwealth, or 137 out of 321.” He also cited MCAS scores for 10th graders and SAT scores as areas that need improvement. “One also loses trust quickly in a man who claims that multiple prize...
...37th position. The three high finishes boosted Harvard’s total tally by 30 points. The men’s 10K freestyle saw strong performances, as sophomore Trevor Petach finished 41st, barely beating out teammate and junior Dave McCahill, who was a short .5 seconds behind in the 42nd spot. The high placements and close finishes added 13 points for the Crimson. The men’s relay, however, was not as favorable, as the pair of three-person teams landed the 19th and 20th positions. For women’s Alpine, captain Alexandra Teng finished first in both...
...Thorp came on strong, finishing first for Harvard in both events. Despite a fractured left hand, Thorp won 10 points for placing 38th in the slalom and another 15 for her 33rd place finish in the giant slalom. Captain Alexandra Teng contributed her share of points as well, landing 42nd in the slalom and 44th in the GS. For the Nordic events, the Harvard men edged St. Lawrence in the 10K freestyle, a first in recent memory. In the Crimson’s first long race of the season, the men’s Nordic team skied a 20K classic...
...movies like this, stupidity can also be read as movie heroism. In The Day After Tomorrow, with the northern half of the U.S. population dead from a sudden attack of Global Freezing, Dennis Quaid decides he has to go on an Iditarod race from Washington, D.C., to the 42nd Street Library in New York to save his stranded son, Jake Gyllenhaal. Tom Cruise went on a similar suicide mission to reconnect with his family in Spielberg's War of the Worlds. Here in Cloverfield Rob decides he absolutely must save Beth, trapped in her midtown highrise, even though...