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...When you look at the demographics, these children are overwhelmingly African-American males, so the school began with a commitment that children can excel in math and science," Graham says...

Author: By Georgia N. Alexakis, | Title: Innovative Banneker School Serves City's Minority Students | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

...order to be a contender, you have to excel in the face of adversity, you have to "get up" for the big contests and emerge victorious. The Harvard wrestlers fell short of this goal last Friday when they lost to nationally-ranked Cornell...

Author: By Joseph K. Goodwin, | Title: Wrestling Loses Big One to Big Red | 2/19/1997 | See Source »

...necessary for the world to work, and they don't imply any lack of respect. I have worked on many projects where I have been absolutely astounded with the achievements, talents, maturity and sheer responsibility of the people who have done things for me. I know that they excel at what they do and I admire them; I might even like what I have seen of their personalities. And if I ran into them in a dining hall, I would certainly sit down beside them. But none of this means that I would call them up and ask them...

Author: By Dara Horn, | Title: Where is Your Roommate? | 12/10/1996 | See Source »

INCREDIBLE SHRINKING PC COMDEX's hottest technology appeared to do the impossible--import the legendarily clunky Windows desktop operating system to handheld computers from the likes of Casio, Compaq and Philips. The NEC Mobile Pro HPC runs fist-size versions of Microsoft Word and Excel on a 5-in. screen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECH WATCH: NEWS FROM VEGAS: THE HYPE GOES ON | 12/2/1996 | See Source »

...yield a comical and sorry dialogue; people do not respond to each other but talk at each other. Communication is supplanted by a thinly veiled conversational chaos. These classes foster the creation of an openly competitive, potentially intimidating environment in which only the talkers survive, and only the articulate excel...

Author: By Gil Seinfeld, | Title: The `Hunter-Gatherer' Theory of Classes | 11/25/1996 | See Source »

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