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Clark says he founded the school with money from his Oprah-featured New York Times-bestselling education manifesto, The Essential 55. Thanks to sponsors like Delta, the academy is able to send its 120 students - who range from fifth to eighth grade and attend largely on scholarship - on trips to six continents by the time they graduate, as part of a curriculum that emphasizes world affairs. He says given their interest in current events, getting the 30 seventh-graders to express their interest in politics through song was easy. "When you use music, kids get excited," he says...
...weekend,” Saretsky said. “We accomplished our first goal beating Yale on both sides [last race]. We are now looking to accomplish our next big goal, and that’s improving our standing within the league.”Last year, Harvard finished fifth in the Ivy League rankings, but should improve its standing within the Ancient Eight after today’s race.Leading the Crimson for the men is sophomore Dan Chenoweth, who has had an outstanding year thus far. An all-Ivy second team choice last year, Chenoweth has the ability...
...stronger suits, as he demonstrated recently at a Seattle fund raiser. "Mark my words: it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy," Biden told the $1,000-a-ticket Democratic donors, who no doubt were startled to discover that the Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse had ridden into the downtown Sheraton. "Remember, I said it standing here, if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch - we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy." A bemused Obama responded, "I think...
...points going the other way could have completely turned around the outcome of the match,” Peterzan said. “If I were to play her again, it definitely would be a very winnable match.” The match made for Peterzan’s fifth match in two days, but she dismissed fatigue as a factor. “We’ve been doing a pretty good job in terms of all our training,” Peterzan said. “Fitness is not letting us down.” Harvard also found...
...American story has never been about things coming easy," Obama said. "It's about seeing the highest mountaintop from the deepest of valleys." This hilly city is as good a place as any to come for that kind of view. It is, according to the August census report, the fifth-poorest city in the country, and yet it ranks as among the most livable. A building that houses the near homeless is having trouble making its mortgage payments, and yet in one survey its location was the only northeast metro area that saw home prices rise last month. You want...