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...confirm that the College will continue to recognize a publication even if they fail to publish an issue for a year,” McLoughlin wrote...

Author: By Evan M. Vittor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: H Bomb Suffers Money Woes | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...before signing with a Major League team. Teams submit blind bids to the player’s Japanese club, and, if it is accepted, the highest bid awards a team the rights to sign him. This ante can only be refunded should the American team and the Japanese player fail to agree on a contract. Unsure of what they are getting, teams usually keep their bids conservative—until Boston’s binge...

Author: By Nathaniel S. Rakich | Title: The $103.1-Million Ticket | 12/15/2006 | See Source »

However, what some conservative Christians fail to realize when they advocate for the exclusion of non-Christians from the celebration of Christmas is that while Christmas may mean one thing to those who celebrate it in the religious sense, it means something else entirely to those others who are seen as trying to horn in and take holiday cheer that isn’t rightfully theirs. Thanks to the tendency of American society to pick up on cultural traditions and then disseminate them for public consumption, it’s almost inconceivable that any group could expect to keep anything...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: The Reason for the Season | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...story about that conversation. This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get "left behind" but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...story about that conversation. This is a story about the big public conversation the nation is not having about education, the one that will ultimately determine not merely whether some fraction of our children get "left behind" but also whether an entire generation of kids will fail to make the grade in the global economy because they can't think their way through abstract problems, work in teams, distinguish good information from bad or speak a language other than English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Bring Our Schools Out of the 20th Century | 12/9/2006 | See Source »

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