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...several massive potholes, and suddenly we're looking out at the sea over a rocky harbor where a couple of rusted tankers lie in water the color of malachite. The skeleton of a large building looms on a headland overhead. "The Aruba Hotel," says Fanah. "This was once the eighth or the ninth finest hotel in Africa." The tour continues...
...eighth paragraph she denounces McCain as a hypocrite, presumably on fiscal irresponsibility and pork-barrel spending (or perhaps, again, for his being a pro-life conservative, cementing the author’s amazing ignorance on American conservatism) but on what evidence? She gives none, leaving the reader only with well-established facts: McCain was a lonely GOP voice and vote opposing Bush’s tax cuts because they were fiscally irresponsible. He has long opposed pork, and whether the author knows it or not, he was specifically referring to a infamous piece of pork in his reference...
Fast forward to Sunday and take a jump to frigid, snow-covered St. Louis. UCLA, which was seeded eighth at the beginning of the tournament, was playing neighboring University of California at Santa Barbara, for the title...
...didn’t learn until I was in college” during their final presentations.Graduate students from the Kennedy School of Government are leading an apprenticeship this semester, teaching students to run mock campaigns. This fall, a team from the Graduate School of Design (GSD) is also guiding eighth-graders in drafting designs to present at the City-Wide Design Showcase at GSD on Monday. ON THE RIGHT TRACK Schanfield says that Citizen Schools focuses on the middle school age group because it is a critical time during a child’s educational life, despite being largely neglected...
...aligned to our standards prior to No Child Left Behind, so we we've had to build our tests from scratch," said Joe Lamson, communications director for the Montana Office of Public Instruction. Because 2006 was the first testing year that required assessments for every grade from third through eighth, Montana set a generous mid-January deadline to process its results. In 2005, only students in fourth, eighth and 10th were tested, so the state easily got its scores in by late August. "We wanted to give ourselves extra time this year to get all of our scoring calibrated properly...