Word: nationalities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This year, Benjamin Dreyfus '01 is running on a jingoistic platform, hoping to convince Mass. Hall to declare war on an unspecified small nation...
...frenzy over the Y2K computer problem continues, officials at the School of Public Health (SPH) are preparing the nation for a different sort of danger this holiday season--drunk driving...
...media suddenly pulling through with some Y2K common sense? Has the wisdom of our leaders preventing the forecasted hysteria? Or are Americans simply unable to handle two holiday buildups at once--and have opted for Christmas consumerism over New Year's millennialism? Maybe all the Y2K anxiety the nation's pundits have been expecting will be condensed into the week between Christmas and New Year...
Additionally, however, as a Connecticut resident not applying to Yale, I am displeased with The Crimson's unprofessional attitude towards New Haven. The city is home to 450,000 hard-working and well-educated residents, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, harbors the nation's second highest concentration of high-tech jobs in the nation after Silicon Valley. New Haven has more theaters than Boston, is within easy access of New York City, and has a contiguity of restaurants, nightspots, theaters and other shops surrounding the Yale campus. Frankly, downtown New Haven makes Cambridge look like a sterile, uninviting...
This crisis is the result of the implementation of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a series of statewide standardized tests that every high school student must pass to graduate, beginning with the class of 2003. This high-stakes, high-standards test is the first in the nation to require students to reach what may be a prohibitively high level of competence for the average student. For months, educators and parents around the state have been waiting with bated breath to see what grade would constitute a passing mark on this test. That grade was revealed on Nov. 23, when...