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...second attempt of her second shot, she struck the puck squarely. MacDonald said at that moment, she knew she would be a winner. The crowd roared as the puck crossed the narrow gap and hit the back...
...fill the teacher shortage,” writes TFA’s Director of Curriculum Development and former Crimson executive Andrew K. Mandel ’00. “It’s to recruit and train outstanding people who will work relentlessly for two years to narrow the achievement gap with their students and will become part of a movement of lifelong advocates for educational equity...
...consequence of TFA’s narrow outlook—that only the very best should be accepted and sent to the most disadvantaged districts—thousands of other excellent applicants who want to teach for two years, like these seniors, are being spurned in spite of the massive need for teachers. There are no broad nationwide programs that seek to match all qualified recent college graduates with school districts starving for teachers; TFA is the closest thing, along with five cities that have very selective programs aimed at young and mid-career professionals. Those who are rejected could...
Sound--"the voice of the site"--is still crucial to his design work. The emotional climax of the Jewish Museum is a trapezoidal room that signifies the catastrophe of the Holocaust. Visitors enter an angular, concrete cell in which the only light comes from a narrow slot high above. When the heavy door is closed behind you, you are simply there in the dark, confronting the desolation of history at one of its bleakest dead ends. You can barely hear the street traffic outside; the world cannot hear...
While the hilly terrain of the course played to McLoon’s strengths, the two-loop circuit also had some very technical aspects. But McLoon managed to navigate its narrow chutes and sharp turns to edge University of New Hampshire’s Kate Underwood by 13 seconds, finishing...