Word: duals
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...important recent trend. There are pockets in Queens [N.Y.] that maintain active ties with home in Mexico. If you extrapolate, I don't think foreign policy or any kind of politics can be practiced the way it is now in a country where enormous numbers of people genuinely have dual identities and reinforce them by flying back and forth to their adoptive countries for nothing...
Last season, the Harvard men’s and women’s swim teams compiled a stellar 18-0 dual record, took home two Ivy titles, and honored six All-Americans at season’s end. The women’s team earned Ivy gold for the first time since 1992, while the men reclaimed the EISL crown from Princeton...
...percent of the overall course grade individually, and so together will still amount to the same sort of safety net offered by a second midterm. Besides maintaining the safety net, single midterms with smaller tests would actually be more effective educational tools than the single (giant) or dual midterm. Smaller tests will help students better retain information since they’ll be evaluated on a smaller range of topics, and will feel less compelled to cram half a semester of knowledge into their heads all at once. Most importantly, these tests will be dispersed sufficiently throughout the semester, perhaps...
...three minutes and 19 seconds of equine magic. By taking the 3,200-m Melbourne Cup in 2003 and 2004, Makybe had become one of just five dual winners in the 144-year history of Australia's best-loved horse race. None had managed the elusive hat trick. So on Nov. 1 the 106,480 people at the Flemington track (and around 10 million Australian television viewers), many of them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn...
...investigation of the Sicilian mafia led to a failed attempt on her life when in 1988, when a half-ton of explosive was discovered in the foundation of her home in Palermo, Italy. In 1999, Del Ponte was named chief prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal. Her dual responsibilities in this role have been addressing allegations of genocide in Rwanda and in the Former Yugoslavia. In her speech last night, Del Ponte said ICTY has had “considerable success” and has “contributed greatly to the cause of justice” by indicting...