Word: america
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...self-esteem damaged and her determination waning, Walker is close to becoming a casualty in the war on social promotion in America's public schools. The idea driving the assault--that the performance of students can be improved if schools establish standards and insist that kids meet them before moving on to the next grade--has a simple, sound-bite toughness. It appeals to parents and teachers at a time when frustration with student underachievement is boiling over. Distressing test results released this spring in states like Louisiana (where 40% of eighth-graders flunked the state's exam in math...
...fund industry is praying that the online trading boom and focus on just a few stocks (America Online, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Cisco) is a short-term phenomenon, the sign of a cyclical market that has got out of hand, rather than a fundamental, long-term shift. "It's based on a false sense of empowerment," claims funds watcher Avi Nachmany of Strategic Insight. Once the narrow bull market calms down, or broadens to include harder-to-choose value and small-cap stocks (as it appears to have done of late), Nachmany and others argue, investors will rush back...
Novick takes on a formidable list of received truths. The claim that America could have saved hundreds of thousands of Jews from death, but chose not to, he says, is "simply bad history." The estimate that the Nazis slaughtered 5 million Gentiles in addition to the (well-documented) 6 million Jews, for a total of 11 million, is arbitrary, probably "invented" to combine "maximum inclusiveness with the preservation of a Jewish majority" in the death camps. Contradicting reports that the Nazis killed 500,000 homosexuals, Novick puts the number murdered because they were gay at a startlingly...
...Mleczko, Shewchuk and Botterill went on to become the most feared line in the nation, combining for 307 points each making the Ivy, ECAC and All-America First Teams. The Crimson top line appeared to be on a power play for the entire season, keeping the puck in the offensive zone and continuing to generate scoring opportunities...
...with Coach Carole Kleinfelder, the winningest coach in women's collegiate lacrosse history, who has seen more than 28 athletes gain All-America status, Harvard was going to get that experience. Midway through the season the Crimson faced the toughest team on the women's lacrosse scene: four-time defending national champions, No. 1 Maryland...