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While thousands of people cram the banks of the Charles River this Saturday to view the Head of the Charles, the Harvard men's soccer team will be hundreds of miles away making its most important road trip of the season...
...amenities are fewer and the service spottier. The food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...
Effectively, the law means that those who have to work must cram their shopping into a few frantic hours in the evenings or on Saturday mornings. Planning a weekend dinner party? Best to have the menu set by Thursday night. That way you can spend the next day going from butcher to baker to candlestick maker, purchasing the ingredients. (Germans still prefer to shop the old- fashioned way, buying a few things at a time at a multitude of stores.) But don't forget the Mittagspause, the lunch break that most mom-and-pop stores dutifully observe...
...know how you guys cram yourselves into those rooms," Donohoe said. "It is a little appalling. I hope the administration will start putting money back into the houses. They are in terrible shape...
Unlike Japan's notorious juku cram schools, which concentrate on passing exams, the Kumon system seeks to increase speed and accuracy in calculation. Students compete not with others but with themselves, constantly striving to better their own scores. A student is given a series of graduated work sheets containing math problems and must score 100% on each within a prescribed time period, usually 15 to 30 minutes, before moving on to the next set. The emphasis is on learning and developing speed in computational skills rather than in mathematical theory. Although intended as a supplement to regular math curriculums...