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...this atmosphere, there's a big incentive for schools to artificially inflate their achievement data. Earlier this year, an investigation found that scores on state tests at the elite Charles E. Brimm Medical Arts High School in Camden, N.J., had been manipulated. Investigators concluded that there was "enormous pressure" from the superintendent on down "to generate high test scores...
From Scottish Kilts to Camden punk, tartan has long been the fabric of choice when tribute is paid to the Queen. Now designers and retailers as diverse as Alexander McQueen and L.L. Bean are indulging in the traditional textile. Kate Spade's wool boot is boxed out in plaid, as is Estée Lauder's jeweled compact, illustrating the evolution of this onetime preppy look. What was once campus chic is now runway cool. Yves Saint Laurent designer Stefano Pilati even featured it for spring. But who better than Burberry, epic old English purveyor of plaid, to square...
...Harvard, by contrast, returns the bulk of last year’s varsity as well as a second varsity that won a national title in Camden...
...with IRA gold medals are few. The last time the Harvard lightweight varsity eight won a national title, this year’s seniors were filling out college applications and racing on the junior level. Four seniors, however, raced to gold as freshmen in 2004, beginning a run at Camden that has suffered two consecutive blows in their years with the varsity. This fall, this winter, and this spring—all are part of their quest for the winners’ dock they claimed as freshmen three years ago, when everything was just beginning.Now they want...
...countless lineup changes throughout the spring—added to an already frustrating dual season wrought with inconsistency and underachievement. It wasn’t until June, until the last strokes of the 2006 season, that the Crimson showed how far it had come on a Saturday afternoon in Camden. Far enough to make the 2006 lightweight IRA final the most thrilling in recent memory. And close enough to make 2007 a campaign for the national title even more important for those who came 0.076 seconds short a season ago. “We thought we’d won?...