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Rhee took over Anacostia High and the district's 143 other schools in June 2007, when Mayor Adrian Fenty named her chancellor. Her appointment stunned the city. Rhee, then 37, had no experience running a school, let alone a district with 46,000 students that ranks last in math among 11 urban school systems. When Fenty called her, she was running a nonprofit called the New Teacher Project, which helps schools recruit good teachers. Most problematic of all, Rhee is not from Washington. She is from Ohio, and she is Korean American in a majority-African-American city...
...most impressive match of the game, No. 1 West beat sophomore Benjamin Clayman 9-2, 9-0, 9-0. No. 2 DiSesa and No. 3 sophomore Eliot Buchanan also annihilated their opponents. DiSesa beat Brown junior Adam Greenberg 9-2, 9-1, 9-0, while Buchanan beat sophomore Adrian Leanza 9-2, 9-3, 9-0. The lower seeded matches proved to be the most competitive of the night for the Crimson. “The lower seeds definitely had some tough close matches,” West said. “People really had to bring their A game...
...Adrian Kantrowitz, 90, performed the first human-heart transplant in the U.S., in 1967. The patient, an infant, received a heart from another child but lived only 6 1/2 hours after the surgery. Despite the loss, Kantrowitz's work ushered in a new era in approaches to heart illness...
Wheeler might be the answer to the void Harvard expected to face this year with the loss of forward Adrian Budischak ’08 and guards Lindsay Hallion ’08 and Jessica Knox ’08. Her performance yesterday may indicate future success on the court...
...that starts down low with its corps of forwards. Three-year starter Katie Rollins and Emma Moretzsohn—Harvard coach Kathy Delaney-Smith’s first forward off the bench— will need some help on the block this season after the graduation of leading rebounder Adrian Budischak ’08. Sophomores Emma Markley and Claire Wheeler, both of whom got plenty of minutes last season, will compete to fill the void in the starting lineup and combine to make up the difference on the boards. “Our sophomore class really had an amazing...