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...loathed leader since World War II - this son of a salaried bank manager has shown a knack for knowing what people want. At a private ceremony last year, Berlusconi summarized his approach to a group of young men and women who had just passed the grueling civil service exam that qualified them for the Italian diplomatic corps. Instead of briefing the budding diplomats on the subtleties of international relations, the billionaire leader addressed them as a potential new sales force. "Present yourself well," he said, according to someone who was there: firm handshakes, no sweaty palms...
...Some schools simply don't have as many resources and good teachers as others. Thu-Trang La, who took the AP calculus class at Bell last year, struggled with the questions on the AP exam that required the use of a graphing calculator in part, she says, because she hadn't learned how to use one in class. But last year when she repeated calculus at George Mason University in Virginia, she passed...
...achievement sounds like great news until you hear that only 5 of the 73 Cardozo students who took an AP exam last year scored a passing grade. And that number isn't likely to increase when the students at Cardozo, along with more than 1 million others across the country, get grades for the AP exams they took in May. Nationally about 63% of students who take the tests pass them, but just 42% of Washington public school students...
...speak English as a second language, read only four. Agnes Akwarandu, the AP English teacher at Bell, explains that "because of their language skills, it's not easy for them" to read many books quickly. Last year, only 1 out of 14 kids at Bell passed the AP English exam...
...final reflection of the season’s success was the Crimson’s togetherness after March 23. When captain-elect Lauren McAuliffe played softball in the spring, hockey teammates would always be there for her support. When several players finished one Saturday afternoon exam in May, they found hockey teammates waiting for them in Harvard Yard with food and drinks. Although the season was finished, the team itself lived...