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...effort from Norman that won’t show up in the box score that was perhaps most important in Harvard’s victory. Norman was assigned on defense to Lehigh’s best player, guard Jose Olivero, who came into the game averaging 15.2 points a game and 17.8 in his last five. Olivero scored a season-high 24 points last year against the Crimson in Lehigh’s 88-79 win in Pennsylvania. This time around, however, Norman held the sophomore standout to only eight points on 3-of-13 shooting, while forcing five turnovers...
Freshman Jose Olivero paced Lehigh (3-3) with 24 points, making Olivero the latest guard to create havoc against the Harvard defense. Despite shooting just 28.9 percent off the bench before Saturday, Olivero torched the Crimson beyond the arc and at the charity stripe, hitting 3-of-5 three-pointers and making 9-of-10 free throws...
PS/MS 279, a school in the Bronx, is on New York City's list of schools "in need of improvement." Only 19% of its students meet state standards in reading. So when Kenia Olivero heard that President Bush had signed an education law that promises students the right to transfer from failing schools, she began to investigate what she could do for her son Kendrick, who was behind in his reading skills. She discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools...
...large number of failing schools creates the dilemma Kenia Olivero faced in New York City. In Chicago this year more than 19,000 students asked to transfer, but the school system had only about 1,000 spots for them. "It's not like we have a lot of high-performing schools at 50% capacity," said Arne Duncan, chief executive of Chicago's public schools. "It creates a sense of options being available when they...
...does, regrettably, have a tendency to rush his chorus on for its big moments, then get rid of it in a hurry. Despite a few intonation problems in the high range, Soprano Patricia Craig of the New York City Opera made a soulful Lisa. The Italian soprano Magda Olivero brought her legendary stage authority to the role of the Countess, although there is not much left of a once distinctive voice. As the obsessed Herman, Jack Trussel was the highlight of the show. Here is an American singing actor with a riveting, haunting stage presence and a clear, powerful tenor...