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...though the Crimson skiers must contend with unfavorable conditions as well as their opponents, they show no signs of getting discouraged. In fact—as evidenced by Baizer’s lofty plans—they see building a program as just one more challenge to undertake...
...years black parents have quietly seethed about stories like Russell's. Now civil rights groups have given those silent suspicions a recognizable name: racial profiling. They contend that not unlike police who stop people on the basis of race, teachers and school officials discipline black students more often--and more harshly--than whites. The result: black students are more likely to slip behind in their studies and abandon school altogether--if they're not kicked out first. In Modesto, black students are 2 1/2 times as likely as their white peers to be expelled. This kind of treatment persists...
...showed the suspect conferring with two others in a city where Fortuyn was speaking earlier on the day of his murder. They are also revisiting the unsolved 1996 murder in a town near Harderwijk of an environmental official found shot in the head. Whatever the details, many Fortuyn supporters contend that by demonizing Fortuyn, established politicians are somehow responsible for fueling the murderous intent of his assassin...
...fasting in accordance with the rule followed by religious Muslims to forswear food on a Thursday. Before dawn that day last November, he sat before his mother to recite the chapter of the Koran his teacher had assigned him to memorize. "If two parties of the believers contend with one another, do ye endeavor to compose the matter between them," he recited, rocking back and forth as an aid to memory. Abdullah stumbled, and Wafa Franji, a teacher of the Koran herself, told him, "It's a little weak, Abdullah." The boy kissed her on the cheek. "This afternoon...
Critics would also contend that diminished skill levels hurt the prestige of the University. This definition of prestige, however, is almost entirely self-imposed. MIT, for instance, is considered no less of a university due to its overall sporting ineptness. Harvard does not lose its dominant reputation to Cornell every time it is beaten at football, baseball or crew. This obsession with winning befits a professional sports program, but not one run out of Harvard’s campus...