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Furthermore, while I personally chose to study abroad because of the wide range of opportunities that American education offered, I do believe that the Chinese system still has many advantages. Chinese students excel at math and science because they do a lot of practice problems and become good at it. Socially, because everyone takes the same classes, students are in one classroom with the same fifty classmates for most of high school. Classmates bond with one another in this close environment and establish life-long friendships. In comparison, American students can meet more people in their different classes...

Author: By Zhongrui Yin | Title: Reflections On Five Years in the U.S. | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...three “imports,” or foreigners, allowed on every LNFA team, Ehrlich is expected to excel...

Author: By Charlie Cabot, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Captain Brings Football to Spain | 1/28/2010 | See Source »

...Lawrence H. Summers, then president of Harvard University, gave an infamous speech in which he implied that the reason few women seem to excel in mathematics is genetic. Perhaps he would cite as evidence the “indisputable” fact that girls play with dolls and not chemistry sets. After all, as we write, little girls are still playing with fresh new dolls from Santa and boys are blowing up their bedrooms and the family...

Author: By Jonathan D. Farley and Autumn Stone | Title: Summers’ Theory of Inequality | 1/25/2010 | See Source »

...Excel at something,” Alemany said. “Show you have passion, whether it is for a sport, or a club, or a course. Employers respect that...

Author: By Jyotika Banga, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finance CEO Discusses Choosing Careers | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

Feeling Swiss Andrew Marshall's article "Identity Crisis" was well written but shouldn't have ended on such an optimistic note [Nov. 9]. True, the writer's son and my sons (with Swiss and African backgrounds) will always remain half-and-half. But as I always tell my boys, excellence has no color. Only if they excel in their chosen fields, like Federer and Hingis, will they be seen as authentic Swiss. And that's when Switzerland would probably celebrate. Taiwo Danjuma, EGERKINGEN, SWITZERLAND

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Loss | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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