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Playing on Saturdays--against Ivy opponents--the Crimson is 3-0. But with yesterday's mid-week loss, the stick women's non league record fell to a dismal...
Report cards on the nation's public schools have been dismal for a decade: teachers cannot teach; students cannot, or will not, learn. The shortcomings of the schools have been documented by lower Scholastic Aptitude Test scores, a national high school dropout rate of some 25%, the shrinking elite of students taking calculus and physics, the proliferation of remedial courses in colleges and in businesses to repair the damage. One study in the '70s found that 30% of 18-year-olds (47% of black youths) were functionally illiterate, unable to read or follow a set of simple directions...
...dismal answer came all too quickly. By 1933 the U.S. economy had spiraled down to a point so close to complete collapse that even those old enough to remember find it difficult to believe. One-fourth of the working force was unemployed, banks closed down, hungry men hunted for scraps of food in trash heaps. The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt marked a turning point perhaps most important for its assertion that economic recovery and revival could be achieved only with a substantial assist from the Government. While the Depression continued, it was softened by the New Deal...
...year saga is a collage of the most dismal events in Polish history, including invasions by Tatars, Cossacks and Turks; partitioning by Russia, Austria and Germany; and the Nazi occupation during World War II. Michener attempts to impose an artificial symmetry upon these events by telling the stories of three fictional families who do battle through the centuries against the country's successive despoilers. Each family represents a different stratum of society. The Lubonskis are nobles, the Bukowskis are members of the gentry, and the Buks are peasants. To keep the scions of these families rushing forth to affront...
...schools. The current proposal could serve no similar purpose. Most 20-year-olds can pass for 21, or have a friend who is. The records show that 20-year-olds drive no worse than 21-to 24-year-olds--last year, in fact, 21-year-olds had a more dismal record...