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While Harvard may have been prepared to row the Thames course well, it faced a racing format entirely different from that used during the dual season. Henley is arranged in a single elimination, head-to-head bracket format, where a draw determines the placement of all 32 crews...
...schools in one state show dramatic progress on the yearly state exams but not on NAEP, that would indicate to the feds that the state tests are too easy. In my government class, at the end of the year all students took the College Board's Advanced Placement exam in U.S. Government. If all my "A" students bombed the AP test, that would show that my own tests were too easy-and that my students weren't really learning anything. The House, worried about establishing a national curriculum, allows states to opt out of NAEP and use different exams...
...live in Ohio, anyone who types your name into a county database can learn your address and how much your house is worth. He can also inspect detailed floor plans of your house, showing placement of your windows, porches and balconies. Supporters of the state's online initiative call it a breakthrough for open access to government records. Critics have another way of describing it: a breaking-and-entering handbook...
...citizen of the global village and all-around guy of the people, I was thrilled when the deal dropped dead. The company stooge in me drooled at the prospect of the two biggest players in Computerville divvying up the market. AOL would get premium distribution and placement in the October release of Windows XP, helping it add gazillions of new users to its rolls. In exchange, Microsoft would not have to worry about AOL's pressing assorted antitrust actions against...
...Most, if not all, of these individuals are smart and well-credentialed. But their placement within the administration doesn't exactly support Bush's theme of changing the tone in Washington...