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Asani also responded to the question, pointing out that the Nation of Islam does not represent all Muslims, and adding that it is necessary to foster personal connections...

Author: By Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Faculty and Students Tackle Issues of Surge in Hate Crimes | 11/12/1999 | See Source »

Bacow added that the partnership will provide MIT with the opportunity to educate future European leaders, foster relationships with European industry and aid in recruiting the best students and faculty to learn and teach here in Cambridge. In his words, the collaboration allows each of the universities to "build strength upon strength...

Author: By Patrick C. Toomey, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: MIT, Cambirdge U. Will Form Partnership | 11/9/1999 | See Source »

Once these aspiring educators enter the teaching sphere, their carefully developed approaches are stonewalled--they are asked to conform to the increasingly rote systems of teaching. The attempts of education programs like Summerbridge to foster novel approaches to teaching are continually nullified by the teach-to-the-test approach that transforms teachers into machines. Richard L. Wade, Headmaster of the prestigious Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia, refers to this trend as "packaging our schools." This process of frustrating the ambitions of would-be teachers perpetuates and validates the saying, "Those who can, do; those who can't, teach...

Author: By Malik B. Ali, | Title: Stifling Our Students' Minds | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Senior midfielder Ashley Berman found senior forward Gina Foster in a crowd at the back post on a corner kick, and Foster touched it to freshman forward Beth Totman for a one-timer it from only five yards out to put the Crimson ahead for good in the 11th minute...

Author: By Peter D. Henninger, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: W. Soccer Claims Ivy Crown | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Remarkably, there are other people--sober, scientific people--who agree. For centuries, doctors have considered the spinal cord an impossible thing to heal. Choked by proteins that block regeneration, denied other proteins that foster growth, dammed up by scar tissue at the site of an injury, a spinal cord that gets hurt tends to stay hurt. But for more than a decade, researchers have been learning to overcome these problems, figuring out ways to heal damaged cords and switch the power back on in spines long since gone dead. Even if Reeve and others don't walk by 2002, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Christopher Reeve Walk Again? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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