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...clung to this math hard in recent days, with even Karl Rove pointing to electoral history to prove that things could have been worse. But Republicans spent most of the year boasting about how the redistricting of the past decade had made them all but bulletproof. Absent those new district lines, says the American Enterprise Institute's Norm Ornstein, "it could easily have been 45 or more." And there are other results that break with past patterns, Ornstein adds. Democrats did not lose a single seat - a feat the party had not accomplished since 1922. Even in the Republican sweep...
Kennedy and Motz were joined by Merrick B. Garland ’74, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...
...test prep factory.” The roundtable, held to discuss possible changes to curriculum to improve student achievement, focused on the district’s Composite Performance Index. The index is calculated from the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) tests and indicates how close the district is to proficiency in all studies on a 100-point scale. Results were released for the English language arts, mathematics, and science exams. From 2005 to 2006, the district boasted gains in all of these test areas except the 7th-grade English language arts exam, where the district lost 2.9 points, bringing...
...invented and that have been imitated in hundreds of movies. But Casino Royale succeeds by taking a modern form of physical activity--parkour, the urban steeplechase in which participants run up stairwells, jump across roofs and slip through transoms that was showcased to exhilarating effect in the French film District B13--and applying it to Bond's pursuit of a bad guy (parkour star Sbastien Foucan) on the high beams of a construction project. Marvelous...
...There were many reports of problems with the electronic voting machines, especially the new touch-screen machines. In fact, in Congressman Mark Foley's district, some of the machines were touched inappropriately." CONAN O'BRIEN...