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...Crimson also faces a tough road game at Fairfield on Wednesday. With Dartmouth looming next Sunday, a three-hour bus ride and midterms to face, Harvard will have to focus extra hard in order to defeat Fairfield and carry its current momentum into the showdown with Dartmouth...
...bureaucratic rules that might put a drag on classroom performance. It so happens that charter schools are also acceptable to teachers unions, important Democratic allies that oppose vouchers in part because the private schools they foster generally pay lower salaries than public systems. Democrats hope they can defeat any drift toward vouchers among blacks if they can just make plain the implications. A recent poll conducted by Gallup for Phi Delta Kappa, an international education fraternity, found that most citizens oppose vouchers when the issue is framed as a matter of tax dollars subsidizing private-school tuitions. That finding...
That drive and familiarity proved important in the Crimson's defeat of the Tigers, winning the match in five long games. Both teams would not relent, knowing that this match could help determine the final Ivy League standings...
...next three teams we meet are all going to be tough to beat," Forcum said. "We play against Dartmouth, Yale and Brown, any one of those teams could defeat...
...called CompuServe's buyout by AOL "a humiliating defeat." Far from it. The overwhelming feeling at CompuServe is more like relief--at finally being out from under its former uninterested master, H&R Block. AOL, though surely not the first choice for a new owner, is certainly better than Block. MARK LIBUCHA Hilliard, Ohio...