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...labor activists - core Democratic party voters - in Seattle to protest, but it got U.S. trade negotiators in a panic. And with good reason. Within hours of the paper hitting the streets, delegations representing developing countries had dug in their heels, convinced that the world's most powerful trading nation planned to deny many of them their only competitive advantage - cheap labor. They vowed to block any progress on further trade liberalization, and claimed victory when the conference ended in failure late Friday. "Protesters weren't the key element that destroyed the Seattle talks," says TIME correspondent Andrew Zagorin. "The meeting...
Being pitted against RPI, however, was a most difficult way to begin weekend. One of the top ten teams in the nation, the Engineers' ECAC record is no reflection of its current performance...
...ranked team in the nation, it is no surprise that many have given the Engineers the edge this weekend. But the talented Crimson can't be counted...
There once was a time when Big Men and Big Women roamed the colleges of this nation, amassing high honors, pursuing diverse achievements, and earning the widespread admiration (and/or resentment) of their peers. That time is evidently over. We have no real public figures on our campus--at least none that command any amount of serious respect. Yes, most people know the names of Noah Z. Seton '00 and Kamil E. Redmond '00, but I doubt that there is a reservoir of popular emotional affinity for either figure...
...years later, America's effort to become the world's best-educated nation is receiving failing marks. A federal panel reported Thursday that each of the six national education goals President Bush set in 1990 for the year 2000 will go unmet. Still, there was some noticeable improvement from kids at the youngest age. As it turns out, throwing money at the problem of fulfilling Bush's goal that kids enter kindergarten ready to learn really did work. Even as the level of federal funding devoted to public education stagnated during the past decade, the amount invested in early childhood...