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...Minister, Kevin Rudd, claiming victory for his Labor Party for the first time since 1996. Poll after opinion poll had predicted a Labor triumph in national elections, but few had forecast its scale. Labor captured at least 22 seats from the ruling Liberal-National coalition - including, it appears, the northwestern Sydney seat held for the past 33 years by Prime Minister John Howard. With 77% of votes counted in Sydney's Bennelong district, Howard trailed by several hundred votes. In an emotional speech Nov. 24 Howard took full responsibility for the conservatives' defeat. Then one of Australia's most successful...
...attention or behave in class but was in entering kindergarten with elementary math and reading skills. Experts caution, however, that these findings should not be taken as an endorsement of academic drills for preschoolers. Says the study's lead author, Greg Duncan, a social-policy expert at Northwestern University: "The kind of skills that matter in affecting later learning are things parents can pretty easily convey to their children in the home." These include such basics as the knowledge of letters and the order of numbers...
...over Northwestern State last Sunday, Harvard shared the ball well, tallying 23 assists as a team, leading to easy shots and a 53.6 field-goal percentage...
...tech. They had fire, sticks and stones, and little else. Yet their traditional oral culture is of great antiquity; their structure of myth is remarkably coherent and continuous across millenniums, not just centuries; and as anyone can see who visits some of the sacred cave sites scattered across northwestern Australia, their traditions of rock painting--animals and fish of every kind, spirit figures and the imposing, fearsome effigies of the great Rainbow Serpent--are as impressive as anything in the caves of Lascaux or Altamira and tens of thousands of years older. As far as we know, the Australian Aborigines...
...season with a mismatch against the 23rd-ranked host Cardinal on Friday night and suffered a 55-point loss, its worst in 18 years. A strong mid-major team, UC Santa Barbara, surged past Harvard in the second half on Saturday, but the Crimson rallied to blow out Northwestern State on Sunday for its first win of the Amaker Era. “We’re hopeful to build on it,” Amaker said of the explosive 90-60 victory. “I think confidence-wise, spirit-wise, and psychologically, this...