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...There he is,” La Trémouille cries proudly, pointing. “We call him Junior...
When you get tuckered out, head to the Greenporter Hotel and Spa in Greenport. Inside you'll find La Cuvee, a restaurant and wine bar that offers one of the area's largest selections of Long Island wines and that is excellent with food-and-wine pairings. The staff can make reliable wine recommendations as well. It's also the perfect place to sip a wine that you might have missed along the way--if you're still up for imbibing...
...noisemaker. Or perhaps it’s because the el is, by definition, not a “subway” at all, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow over everything near it. Maybe it resonates with people’s impressions of gritty urban life, à la the famous chase scene in The French Connection. Possibly, people don’t like the idea of tons of steel taking tight curves on an ancient track a couple of stories above their heads...
...Some schools simply don't have as many resources and good teachers as others. Thu-Trang La, who took the AP calculus class at Bell last year, struggled with the questions on the AP exam that required the use of a graphing calculator in part, she says, because she hadn't learned how to use one in class. But last year when she repeated calculus at George Mason University in Virginia, she passed...
...fact that La did well in her college math course heartens AP advocates, who argue that students who don't pass the AP exams still benefit from taking the classes because they're more likely to be successful in college. Even so, Washington schools are looking at ways to get more students passing the tests. The key, they say, is early exposure to difficult work. Accordingly, Cardozo is using grant money to coordinate its curriculum with that of some local middle schools, so that students can take the kinds of challenging classes that will better prepare them for AP when...