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...notion that inner-city students were incapable of learning. Escalante, whose inspirational story was the basis for the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, died March 30 at 79 after a years-long battle with bladder cancer. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Bolivia, Escalante studied English at night to earn his California teaching credentials. At Garfield High School, he found that his primarily Mexican-American working-class students were oppressed by a culture of low expectations, and he began to overhaul the school's math curriculum. His young charges did so well on the 1982 advanced-placement calculus exam that...
...reliever Andrew Ferreira, and Quaker junior Jeremy Maas hit a grand slam to left, quickly turning what seemed to be a blowout into a three-run game. Walsh called Zailskas to the mound from first base, and he easily got the final two outs to clinch the sweep and earn his third save of the season...
With only three games remaining and a 1-2 record in conference play, the Crimson must likely win out if it hopes to earn an NCAA tournament berth...
Rosekrans gave the Crimson its first point of the afternoon with her 10th win of the season. After dropping the tightly contested first set, 7-5, she evened the match by taking the second, 6-2. In the super tiebreak, she outplayed her opponent to earn...
...guess wrong. On the first Sunday of June last year, Warner Bros. announced that its new comedy The Hangover had taken in $43.3 million, which made it second to Pixar's animated feature Up, at $44.2 million. The final count showed that The Hangover had surged on Sunday to earn $1.6 million more than predicted, which made it that weekend's champ by $840,000. Why, then, do studios race to provide guesstimates when the weekend isn't over? Because there's usually not much news on Sunday, and the hit films get free publicity on that day's news...