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...many kids and teachers performing below par? As states like to point out, education is their responsibility. "Why weren't they educating kids in the first place?" asks Chester Finn, an Assistant Secretary of Education under Reagan and current president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Foundation. "Some states were doing a reasonably conscientious job--Florida, Massachusetts. But I have no sympathy for states like Utah that, as best I can tell, were not lifting a finger...
...inflation--at 3%, about par for a growing economy--is actually worse than it appears. That isn't widely understood by the millionaires on Wall Street, who were shocked--shocked!--to learn that life is getting more expensive and sent stocks into a brief tailspin. But most of us have been dealing with stealth inflation for a couple of years...
...some times,” captain Juan Ramos said, “we couldn’t believe how much we were on par with them...
Cronan won the competition with a 78—six over par. Her total was a remarkable feat considering that she had shot 10 strokes higher on the same course just two days earlier and that the weather was rainy and windy...
...element the team had to deal with on Friday. Harvard placed first with a score of 333—beating second-place Amherst by 10 strokes. At the end of the competition, Baizer was tied with BU’s Brenna Gibson for first with a 79, seven over par. But Baizer lost the playoff to end up with a second-place finish...