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...freshman Christina Kessler, however, the only item on the shopping list was a knee brace, after an injury suffered in early August left her scholastic plans...
...most incoming Harvard freshmen, the month of August spells one thing: back-to-school shopping. Trips to Target fill up the days, boxes begin to pile up on living room floors, and eager first-years prepare to relocate to within the gates of Harvard Yard...
...week before the camp—“August 4th at 7 a.m.,” Kessler adds, to be exact—an awkward turn at a tournament in Quebec left the goalie writhing in pain and potentially looking for something else to occupy her in the coming year...
...Because 2006 was the first testing year that required assessments for every grade from third through eighth, Montana set a generous mid-January deadline to process its results. In 2005, only students in fourth, eighth and 10th were tested, so the state easily got its scores in by late August. "We wanted to give ourselves extra time this year to get all of our scoring calibrated properly. We've met all our deadlines along the way," said Lamson. The Montana spokesman couldn't lavish enough praise on its contracted testing company, New Hampshire-based Measured Progress, which he says...
...tough is its fight in Afghanistan? Tougher than most thought it would be when NATO first deployed forces in August 2003 to help the nascent Afghan government maintain security. "If we fail in Afghanistan it could be the end of the alliance," says Ronald D. Asmus, director of the Transatlantic Center of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a security think tank in Brussels. "It would be like losing the Korean War at the beginning of the cold war." There's not a single NATO member state who would argue otherwise, yet the trend line is not encouraging...