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Critics of the current K-8 system contend that educational programs at each school vary in quality, which is in part due to an imbalanced distribution of students across the district...
...subsistence farmer in the region of Fatick in western Senegal, and the other members of his agricultural cooperative to expand their paddy fields last year. Though the seeds he received through GOANA weren't of top quality, leading to mediocre yields - a common problem with the program, critics contend - Sarr's rice output increased enough to encourage him to join GOANA again this planting season. The new government scheme "gives us the chance to do something extra, to try and expand our fields, and that's very good," Sarr says. (See pictures of a global food crisis...
Dartmouth and Harvard, preseason favorites to contend for the Ivy title, loaded up their non-conference slate with games against ranked opponents. With both teams ranked in the top ten earlier this season (The Big Green were ranked as high as #5; the Crimson #6) and boasting prolific strikers like Daniel Keat, Lucky Mkosana (Dartmoth) and senior Andre Akpan (Harvard), their decisions seemed justified...
...woes have effectively turned the Ivy championship into a three-horse race. Dartmouth, Harvard, and Brown (2-0-0) have all shown they are capable of winning the league, so the title will largely come down to how the teams fare against each other. Dartmouth still has to contend with away fixtures in Providence and Cambridge. Brown has already lost to Harvard and faces a difficult game this weekend against a resurgent Cornell squad...
James C. Liu ’89, who plays Jupiter, agrees. “Parts of the libretto explore the relationship between men and women in a way that is surprisingly modern,” he says. Semele’s ambition and her desire to contend with Jupiter as an equal can be likened to the women’s movement of the 1970s, he suggests. And though this is not the focus of the performance, it is certainly an underlying theme that helps lend the opera some contemporary relevance...