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...successfully overthrew the government of President General Fulgencio Batista. The United States - which supported Castro by imposing a 1958 arms embargo against Batista's government - immediately recognized the new regime, although it expressed some misgivings over the revolutionaries' execution of over 500 pro-Batista supporters and Castro's increasingly obvious communist tendencies. Castro visited the U.S. just three months after coming to power, touring Washington monuments and meeting with Vice President Richard Nixon, all while wearing his trademark olive green fatigues. It was a rare moment of alliance between the two countries, and one that would not be repeated...
...experimentation to work, there need to be clear standards and assessments so that parents and administrators can know which schools are successful. Indeed, the entire national debate about whether charter schools are good or bad could be defused (as Duncan did in Chicago) if both sides accept the obvious: good charter schools are good, bad charter schools are bad, and a system of common standards and assessment is needed to separate the wheat from the chaff...
...said. “We will remember Sunday to fire us up, and [yesterday] to show us we can beat anyone.”HARVARD 1, YALE 0Harvard used great pitching and even better defense to secure a much-needed victory in the second game of its doubleheader, 1-0.The obvious star of the game was Black, who notched a commanding complete-game win. After coming out of the bullpen for most of the season, Black appeared right at home in the starting rotation, as she paced the Crimson through seven innings.But things would have been different had Harvard?...
...Reward arrived with our Harvard acceptance letters, and salvation was granted in the opportunity to join a campus of fellow one-time social outcasts. But, if the palpability of students’ social abilities is less obvious, the unrelenting drive to work persists and automatically demands limited social interactions...
...well-rounded life. Personally motivated pursuits—long conversations with friends, reading for pleasure, thought driven by curiosity and not course demands—are crucial aspects of life notably underemphasized on the Harvard campus. Given students’ unhappiness with their highly work-oriented lives, it seems obvious that much can be gained from the imposed abandonment of work for five weeks next January. Hopefully, this will give students the space to reconsider their middle-school habits and dabble in the other forums of life...