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...Latin School (CRLS) graduation rates, proclaimed as “among the highest in the state” on the district’s Web site, mask the fact that Cambridge is in the “42nd percentile in the listing of all public schools in the commonwealth, or 137 out of 321.” He also cited MCAS scores for 10th graders and SAT scores as areas that need improvement. “One also loses trust quickly in a man who claims that multiple prize winners and multiple Rhodes scholars have graduated from CRLS but cannot...
...training program, run by British consulting firm GroundTruth, was part of an effort by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to prepare its U.S.-based Rapid Deployment Team to respond to future natural and manmade disasters in the hemisphere. The British government decided to ramp up this type of training after taking a beating in the press for its perceived clumsy handling of the 2002 terrorist bombings in Bali...
...November 2003, local officials hailed New Delhi's victory in the race to host the 2010 Commonwealth Games as an opportunity to modernize its infrastructure and showcase the Indian capital as a world-class city. But New Delhi's preparations for the games - which involve Britain and most of its former colonies - have been so tardy and poorly executed that diplomats here joke that workers will still be painting the lanes on the athletic track when the runners take their marks...
While not nearly as prestigious as the Olympics, the Commonwealth Games, which involves some 5,000 athletes from 53 countries, will be the largest sporting event ever staged in India. Having staked India's reputation on the event, New Delhi is spending an estimated $12 billion to prepare the city for the games. With less than three years to go, plans to build state-of-the-art sports facilities and transport infrastructure, including new roads, at least 74 flyovers and new underground subway lines, have yet to be executed. Delhi's dilapidated train stations and airports will also have...
...some months now, the authorities have been putting up giant billboards counting down to the Commonwealth Games - presumably to get Delhi-ites enthused about them. The billboards' more important function, however, may be to remind those responsible for preparing the city for this showcase event that time is running...