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...good news for the Lions is they’re 1-0 with a win over Fordham. The bad news is the Dukes are 2-1 with a more impressive victory over the Rams...
Columbia capped off the big day for the Ivies in the nightcap, venturing over to the Bronx to take down Fordham 23-17 and bring home the Liberty Cup for the first time in three years. The Lions, the preseason pick to be the Ivy cellar-dweller, had the same offensive concerns as Princeton and Dartmouth. But like the Tigers and Big Green, Columbia found other ways to score—including a 94-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Prosper Nwokocha—in order to get past the Rams, the Patriot League’s fourth-place...
Nonetheless, the proposal represents a major, if legal, shift toward government activism. According to Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, which promotes school reforms, the number of children receiving government money for private school is roughly 30,000, with a "handful" involving federal funds. The Spellings plan assumes roughly 60,000 federally funded private-school placements. Finn, an Assistant Education Secretary under Ronald Reagan, approves of it as "compassionate and constitutional." Andrew Rotherham, a co-director of a think tank called the Education Sector and a former Clinton education adviser, says the proposal's eventual...
...Fordham, where he teaches the political, legal, and social history of medieval Europe, Smail is unique in his anthropological approach...
...Fordham,] it’s not easy to develop ties with people in other departments,” said Smail, who explained that he’s interested in fields like physiology and evolutionary biology. “Ties between faculty in different departments develop a lot more easily [at Harvard], and that’s just one of the many things I’m particularly looking forward...