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...Reagan. Clinton, on the other hand, is a relatively junior Senator and ranks no higher than fifth in seniority on any of her committees. On Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the panel that oversees the issue about which she has the most expertise and passion - health care - she ranks eighth. The chairman, Kennedy, has brain cancer but vows to play the lead role himself...
Four days ago, a select group of eighth graders from G. Gardner Shugart Middle School in Prince George’s County, Maryland, spent all night in a bus on their way up to Harvard. The long bus ride up the East Coast—which was organized by their social studies teacher, Matthew T. Bosch ’07—was intended to expose the students to college and to enrich their study of American history. “We want them to know what they need to do if they want to go to college...
...captain Chas Gillespie’s fifth-place finish at 24:47.3 in the 8K race. Gillespie’s placement was the highest Harvard finish at Heps since Nathan Shenk-Boright placed fifth in the 2001 event. Sophomore Dan Chenoweth also ran a top-10 race, finishing eighth with a time of 24:52.5.“I was really pleased with how we ran up front,” Saretsky said. “I told Chenoweth to go really hard after [Princeton senior Michael] Maag and [Dartmouth senior Ben] True. I wanted him to get that kind...
Economics professor N. Gregory Manikw was among the professors surrounded by 10 eighth graders enjoying pizza and horror flicks in his family room. Scary...
Clark says he founded the school with money from his Oprah-featured New York Times-bestselling education manifesto, The Essential 55. Thanks to sponsors like Delta, the academy is able to send its 120 students - who range from fifth to eighth grade and attend largely on scholarship - on trips to six continents by the time they graduate, as part of a curriculum that emphasizes world affairs. He says given their interest in current events, getting the 30 seventh-graders to express their interest in politics through song was easy. "When you use music, kids get excited," he says...