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...attention then shifted to Lingman’s match at No. 1, as he began to slow down his opponent with powerful forehand winners and well-placed volleys. His opponent, No. 60 Pedro Nieto, had won 18 straight matches, including a straight-set victory over the No. 22 player in the nation...
...features four players ranked in the top 107 in the country, with its top player—junior Pedro Nieto—ranked 60th. Harvard features only one—sophomore Jonathan Chu, ranked...
...retain the faith as a native New Yorker, regardless of my dislocation. Nonetheless, he reluctantly acknowledged that a game in Fenway Park is a required Boston experience. The summer after my sophomore year was filled with trips to the park at the height of recent Sox glory. Pedro wasn’t just a knockout pitcher, but Dominican Royalty to the bleacher creatures. And Nomar and Manny just fed more fire to the fervor...
...that this frightening rise in attrition is not the result of students’ fear of failure on MCAS. Rather it is the result of students’ understanding that the worth of MCAS is only a diploma, not education. As our colleague, Dimon Professor in Communities and Schools Pedro Noguera, has recently noted from his interviews with Boston public school students, students want to be challenged and engaged in their work. Formulaic test preparation drains the life out of both classrooms and students...
TALK TO HER. The only recognition that Pedro Almodovar’s pretentious Talk to Her deserves is as the year’s most overrated film. Though beautifully shot and populated with a set of unusually complicated characters, Talk to Her shamelessly and outrageously asks its audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Winner of this year?...