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Usually the opening ceremony for the Olympics is a bit like Oscar night: You suffer though a lot of pretentious, self-indulgent schmaltz just so you can enjoy a couple of interesting moments that might be memorable and even historic. Like the Oscars, the ceremony can drag on and on: parading 10,000 athletes from 199 countries, Albania through Zimbabwe, makes for a long evening. And that spectacle can become as tedious as actors thanking their agents, except that the athletes dress more exotically...
Amble a few steps south and drag your foot along the curb of Memorial Drive. You're in the territory of the Massachusetts State Police...
...knock-down, drag-out a fight as you're likely to see this year: Two sharp-tongued opponents, lashing out at each other at every opportunity - and inventing those opportunities during rare moments of calm...
...many struggling students, whose scores threaten to drag down a school's overall rating, find themselves shunted from the exam room. That apparently was the case at TSU/HISD Laboratory School, a tiny, predominantly African-American school near downtown Houston. After 93% of students passed all parts of the exam in 1998, the school won an "exemplary" state rating. But just one year later, only 62% passed. What happened? In 1998, 39% of students SAT out the exam after they were deemed "special ed," a designation generally confined to students with severe learning disabilities. The next year, after a district crackdown...
...drugs in order to strengthen the government's forces - which many observers in the region and in the U.S. believe is a no-win proposition unless America's appetite for narcotics is diminished. But what congressional opponents of the U.S. aid package really fear is that it may drag Washington into the quagmire of the ongoing civil war. After all, the guerrillas and their supporters may be tempted to retaliate for Washington's involvement by directly attacking U.S. personnel, which would tend to prompt the Pentagon to expand its commitment. And the human rights record of the Colombian military Washington...