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Chatterji and DeSimone analyzed data collected by the National Education Longitudinal Study (NELS), which tracked and periodically interviewed approximately 12,000 students starting in 1988, when the students were in eighth grade. The NELS continued to follow them for 12 years, until the year 2000, when most participants in the study were 26 years...
Chatterji and DeSimone drew on the interviews conducted in 1988, 1990, and 2000, when the respondents were eighth-graders, tenth-graders, and 26 year-old adults, respectively...
...itself as one of the deepest in the league and has contributed greatly to Harvard’s undefeated record through the team’s first three games. “We’ve got six or seven good guys out there, and to be honest our eighth and ninth guys are good enough that they could be starting at a lot of Ivy League schools,” junior receiver Corey Mazza said.Six different Crimson wideouts have caught a pass this season, and the Harvard offense leads the Ivy League with an average of 263 passing yards...
Because Ban enjoys the support of all five permanent Security Council members, it is widely considered a foregone conclusion that he will be nominated as the eighth secretary-general on Oct. 9. He would then go before the U.N. General Assembly, which traditionally accepts Security Council nominees without protest...
...seven of the day’s eight scheduled races. Nevertheless, that one race was enough to cement a third-place finish for the Crimson in the B-division. The uncooperative weather frustrated the ambitions of juniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec. The shortened regatta left the boat in eighth place in the A-division, resulting in an overall eighth-place finish for the Crimson. “The winds were very inconsistent and fickle,” Johnson said. “You can really see that inconsistency in everyone’s scores...