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...Low scores on basic skills tests, teachers' salaries $4000 below the statewide average, and a nearly 50 percent rate of students who do not speak English as a first language have also called the school system to the attention of the University...
Last year, the Hawks--an average team in the Seaboard Conference--should have been an easy victim for Harvard. Instead, they were a menacing foe who shocked the Crimson with a come-from-behind win, 99-86. The game was one of the few low points during Harvard's best season ever...
...fact, it is precisely because so much of the tourist industry slows down during the winter that so many travelers are attracted to the off-season. The low season is a blessed chance to eavesdrop on real life in a spirit of calm and privacy. Even the cities lose their summer affectations. "People get a better feel for Parisian life," says Nicole Roques-Lagier, press attache for the Paris Tourist Office. "They see people going about their daily business, much more so than in the summer, when the French themselves are on vacation." It is easier to get a table...
Those who believe that the movement inflames nativist resentments got some ammunition this fall. The ethnocentric views of U.S. English's co-founder and former chairman John Tanton came to light when initiative opponents uncovered a 1986 memo in which he expressed worry that low white birthrates and high Hispanic birthrates would endanger American society. Wrote Tanton: "Perhaps this is the first instance in which those with their pants up are going to get caught by those with their pants down." Board member Linda Chavez, former staff director of the Civil Rights Commission and later candidate for the U.S. Senate...
Tired of the crowds and crush of summer, more Americans than ever are savoring Europe' s low season, when highways are passable, museums unpopulated, the natives more restful, and the cultural season is in full swing. For cost- conscious travelers in search of peace, privacy and a glimpse of real life, the winter months are the time...