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With an intimidating offense, solid defensive unit, and three very capable keepers, the outlook for the Crimson’s Ivy League future is only one thing—very, very bright...
...bright guy, and he picked up the issues and got better as time went on," Hance added. "If it'd been two weeks earlier, we would have beaten him worse. If it'd been two weeks later, it would have been really close." Hance believes he taught Bush two lessons. First, he said, he showed Bush the need to cultivate the religious right, those church-goers who he had largely ignored during the campaign and who in the end voted against him on the alcohol issue. And second, he thinks, he helped teach Mr. Bush the need to be more...
...nursery is a false Eden, because class inequalities are already at work. According to a 2007 report by the nonprofit Sutton Trust, cognitive test scores of bright 3-year-olds from the poorest British households drop around 30% by the time the children reach age 5. As kids grow, so does the education gap. The chances for smart-but-poor Britons to reach top universities are slim. A 2006 study for the Bonn-based Institute for the Study of Labor found that Britain had the lowest social mobility of the 12 developed countries surveyed...
...professions in 2002. Perhaps we'll move to an area where the schools are good, free and nondenominational. Even so, Nicola's schoolmates will probably be middle-class like her: the Bristol University study found that poor children are 30% more likely to attend low-scoring schools than equally bright but wealthier kids. As we middle-class parents scrabble to keep our children in the middle class, many of us have opted for academic standards over the chance to have our kids learn with others from a range of backgrounds. School has become as much a slow shuttering from...
...pact with the Devil to make sure he shoots surely in the all-or-nothing finals. But Mr. Snyder, as well as singer Emily Pulley, who played a fretful and unlikable Agathe, does not act with enough conviction to make anyone really care whether his bullets will land. The bright-voiced and comical soprano Heather Buck, in the archetypal sassy-best-friend-to-the-leading-lady role, fared much better as Ännchen.The vague and muted acting of most of the ensemble went hand in hand with the production’s unfathomable setting. With...