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...rest of the squad has improved with her, too. Five Crimson runners finished in the meet's top 10. Angell finished fourth overall (18:34); Jenny Martin, sixth (18:47); Cricket Sheppard-Sawyer, seventh (18:51); and Jessica Mikszewski, ninth...
...risk. Hartford, one of the poorest cities in Connecticut, has been spending roughly $9,000 per student annually, well above the national average of $5,900, and yet has one of the highest dropout rates and the lowest test scores in the state. Fewer than half the city's ninth- graders graduate four years later; 95% of fourth-graders need remedial help. Acting superintendent Eddie Davis, whose two children attend Hartford schools, is blunt about the crisis. "Our performance is down, our costs are up," he says. "Our 2,000-odd teachers make on average $52,000 and rank...
Stocks soared Tuesday in heavy trading, powered by a slew of strong corporate earnings reports and falling bond yields. A sampler of good news: Union Corp., the nation's ninth largest banking company, reported that third-quarter profits increased 24% from a year ago; Pepsico, fueled by improved performance in its soft drink and snack foods divisions, posted an 18% hike in earnings. As a result, the Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 55.51 points to 3876.83. The S&P 500 rose nearly seven points to 465.79. NASDAQ shares rose 8.76 to 765.751. Bond prices rallied on rumors that the Feds...
...Cornell has maintained a tremendous dominance the last decade over Harvard football," Murphy said. "They are going for their ninth win in a row over Harvard. That could very well be some sort of Ivy League record...
...happened while I was watching Ken Burns' "Baseball"--the bottom of the ninth. And I don't really know how to explain why--all that is definite to me are the tears that I could feel welling up in my eyes, that and the centrality of our "national pastime" to both experiences...