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...beautiful mind lives in Quincy House. That mind belongs to Sheel C. Ganatra ’06, a sophomore concentrating in both Mathematics and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, who has wowed the math community with his solution to a problem that had previously proved a real stumper...
...Child Left Behind Act in January 2002, he held an elaborate bill-signing ceremony in which he promised that his education reform would bring hope to kids like Kendrick. The law calls for states to test students in third to eighth grade each year in reading and math. In 53% of U.S. schools, which receive direct Federal Government funding because they have large numbers of low-income students, students can transfer to another school or receive free tutoring if their school fails for two years in a row to improve its test scores. Bush's education bill won bipartisan praise...
...clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need to understand the universe. The system of belief is summed up this way by student Syed Ayaz Ali Shah: "Since the days of the Prophet, there are only two forces...
...more lucrative for some. Others don't want to give up safe House seats, or they find governorships more rewarding than the highly partisan Senate, where they can get little done. But even though "we couldn't live up to the 2002 recruiting," says a G.O.P. official, the political math still leaves the party "pretty happy where we are for 2004." The Democrats need to pick up two seats to win back the Senate--a tough assignment, since they have 19 seats to defend, compared with just 15 for the Republicans. --By Douglas Waller
Andrew P. Winerman ’04, a Crimson editor, is an applied math concentrator in Cabot House...