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...Chijoff-Evans’s first time on the national tournament stage, and he felt the gravity of the moment. “When I was going out there, I was feeling really nervous…I really didn’t know what to expect,” Chijoff-Evans said. Despite opening up with an uncharacteristic two double faults, he quickly managed to overcome his nerves. Harvard’s tandem fought off an early threat and broke the opposing team’s serve three times on its way to the win. “The Denver...
...point at the end of the Crimson’s first touchdown drive forced Harvard to have to go for two late in the game. “You miss an extra point, you can’t do that against a very good football team like Brown and expect to survive it,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said after that loss. “That missed extra point was huge,” Brown coach Phil Estes said. “You say to yourself ‘that will come back to haunt them...
...Barack Obama begins to assess his potential picks for his cabinet, Secretary of Education is not one of the positions you would necessarily expect him to focus on first. But American parents especially may wish to study up on the possible candidates. After all, if Obama's campaign proposals are to be fulfilled, Margaret Spellings' successor could oversee a dramatic $18 billion overhaul of the nation's public education system over the next few years...
Whoever gets the spot, Obama's new Ed chief should expect to face a huge test right off in the contentious reauthorization of the federal No Child Left Behind act, considered to be one of the first priorities in Congress come January. Down the road, he or she can also plan to direct the founding of hundreds of new charter schools and the spread of universal pre-K nationwide, as well as a continued focus on increased accountability and a better trained teacher corps...
...Obama may speak beautifully and inspirationally about hope and change, about bipartisan cooperation and a better America. But he clearly understands that you can't just sit around talking about all the good things you want to do when you get to the White House and then expect them to happen all by themselves. Which means you can't hire a staff that's going to gather at work every day, hold hands and sing "Kumbaya...