Word: philadelphia
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This year's IV has performed well, winning the first three races of its brief six-race season. On April 3, they drove past Cornell and Penn at the Matthews Cup, held in Philadelphia on the Schuylkill River. One week later they beat Dartmouth and MIT decisively in the Biglin Bowl, which took place on he home course. The next day, they journeyed to Princeton for a showdown with Rutgers, where again they prevailed by over eight seconds on the 2000-meter course...
...Saturday, Harvard traveled to Philadelphia to take on the Penn, and the result was a 7-0 trouncing of the Quakers...
...Saturday, Harvard traveled to Philadelphia to take on the Penn, and the result was a 7-0 trouncing of the Quakers...
...Crimson (15-4, 2-0 Ivy) will take on Princeton on Friday afternoon at the Lenz Tennis Center and Penn (11-4, 1-2) on Saturday in Philadelphia...
Still, Chicago's experience has inspired other mayors frustrated with their city's public schools. Even mayors with little hope of gaining full authority over schools have begun to push aggressively for greater influence. Philadelphia Mayor Edward Rendell has put his political muscle behind the city's reform-oriented superintendent, and Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan has stirred controversy by backing his own slate of school-board candidates. "The school board's attitude toward me is, 'Stay out of our business,'" says Riordan. "But we know who the people will hold accountable if the system continues to fail"--the mayor...