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...Harrington School—which have among the lowest MCAS scores in the district. After two better-performing schools move onto the empty campuses, the school district will have merged five student bodies into three, and Ola will have moved across the city, an action that will likely destroy the program...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Victims of the Budget Crunch | 12/11/2002 | See Source »

...bunch of scientists in baseball caps demand to poke around. And, of course, there's always the danger that the inspectors will uncover evidence of weapons programs - if that happens, expect the Iraqis to dissemble, proclaiming them leftovers or the work of rogue officers and inviting UNMOVIC to destroy them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next in Iraq? | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

This process amounts to a vaccination system, like childhood immunizations, keeping the body primed to destroy an antigen the next time it is detected...

Author: By Tamara Somasundaran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Team Applies Vaccine System to Cancer | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...proved to be very flawed assumptions. Initially, Hussein incorrectly guessed that the United States would be unwilling or unable to garner enough international support to expel the Iraqis from Kuwait. Then, when it became clear during subsequent months that the U.S. had both the will and the capability to destroy his forces, Hussein grossly misjudged the efficacy of his own military, convincing himself that the Iraqi army could fight well enough to produce a bloody stalemate...

Author: By Stephen P. Bosco, | Title: The Perils of Containment | 12/5/2002 | See Source »

...film's vast scope ranges from the snowy, unspoiled peaks of Middle-earth (shot in various New Zealand locales) to the city of Isengard (a composite of models and computer-generated imagery), which is destroyed--spectacularly--by a brigade of towering, treelike creatures known as Ents. Meanwhile, the hobbit hero Frodo (Elijah Wood) continues his quest: he must destroy the magic Ring before the Dark Lord Sauron can use it to rule the world. Aragorn (played by Mortensen, who transforms himself before your eyes from brooding beefcake to full-blown movie star) embarks across the desolate plains of Middle-earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lure Of The Rings | 12/2/2002 | See Source »

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