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...competitiveness and competency, it identified in the article two methods of accomplishing that goal: increasing high school interest and improving the college-level education, but they are wrong in thinking the solution can be found entirely in the former. The statistics in are article speak strongly: already around 40 percent of the student body has entered with a strong interest in the sciences--at a liberal arts college--and the students are talented as well. Harvard's winning the Putnam National Math Contest for the fourth straight year is just one example of the superior potential in the student body...
Rullman responded last week, shooting 82 percent from the field in the Crimson's 2-1 performance against Brandeis, Holy Cross and Central Connecticut. The Ivy League was quick to recognize the 6-ft, 6-in. forward, honoring Rullman as the first Ivy League Rookie of the Week for the 1989-'90 season...
...need for reductions in spending and new taxes along historical lines, noting that federal commitments to state aid had waned during the 1980s while state payments to cities and towns had climbed. State revenues that grew by double-digits earlier in the decade have trickled to less than 5 percent growth annually, he said...
...Francis Doris (D-Revere) said he would try to strike out a provision requiring all state employees to pick up at least 9 percent of their health insurance costs...
When the University's senior faculty is 93.7 percent male and 93.8 percent white, it is unconscionable for anyone on that faculty to talk as if there weren't a problem, or to blame minorities and women for their absence here...