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...injury bug bit Penn (5-3, 4-1) hard on Saturday, as running back Jason McGee exited in the first quarter in favor of Jim Finn, who carried 33 times for 146 yards against the Tigers (4-4, 1-4), one of the more successful defensive packages against the Harvard running game...
...Penn offense has a dangerous weapon in running back Jim Finn, who scored three touchdowns and rushed for 187 yards on 21 carries in New Haven...
...People only say and do things because of the media--Do you really think that someone is sitting on the porch and says, 'I think I'll do this.' No. Those Huckleberry Finn days are mother-fucking over...
...complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing went down in flames," says Chester Finn, a conservative analyst at the Hudson Institute, "it would be because those on the right couldn't stand the word national, and those on the left can't abide testing...
Administration officials chalk up the opposition to overheated speculation on all sides, and they're partly right. But the White House has made miscues of its own. Early supporters of the national-test plan, like Finn and Brookings Institution scholar Diane Ravitch, have deserted the President because the tests were developed through the politically appointed Department of Education rather than by a nonpartisan body like the independent National Assessment Governing Board. "It's wrong to have a new national test every time a new President is elected," Ravitch says. Last month Education Secretary Richard Riley agreed to surrender control...