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...Channel 603, square in television's Yukon Territory. Since the hockey playoffs are on Versus, formerly known as the Outdoor Life Network, viewers in many markets will have to search the hinterland of channel listings in order to watch the games. Versus is Channel 603 on DirecTV, and its placement isn't pretty on cable either. On Time Warner Cable's Los Angeles system, it's Channel 267; in New York, Cablevision puts Versus on Channel 146; and in Dallas, Versus gets prime position on Channel 254. Of the nation's 115 million television households, some 40 million...
...said Christopher “Kit” H. Barron, a spokesman for the David Rockefeller Center. Barron said he could not say for certain whether the student would be allowed to keep his or her summer grant. According to Winnie, the OIP would help students secure an alternative placement and allow their grants to fund the new program or project in the event that a cancellation did occur. Harvard’s inaugural Summer Internship Program on Sustainable Development in Mexico has placed eight undergraduates in various rural communities in the southern part of the country. Barron said that...
...rural areas: in 2004, children in rural schools were less likely to have parents who had completed some form of post-secondary education than children in other areas.The 2007 study reported that, in 2002-2003, a mere 69 percent of rural, public -high-school students attended schools offering Advanced Placement courses, compared to 93 percent of public-high-school students in cities and 96 percent in suburbs. Rural public schools historically have also had fewer instructional computers with Internet access per capita and lower-paid teachers (even after adjusting for the lower cost of living in rural areas...
...Nick Carraway explains in The Great Gatsby—which I read because my high school and the writers of the Advanced Placement English Literature and Composition test luckily did believe in Great Books—that he is going to take up a heavy reading schedule so that he can become “that most limited of all specialists, the ‘well-rounded man.’” It is embarrassing that Harvard believes a medley of irrelevancies will prepare students for “life beyond college,” and even more...
...first period. The Lions used a steady attack and efficient shooting to tie the score at 4-4 with 3:53 remaining in the first half, despite being outshot by the Crimson, 16-9. “The shots in the first half were all about the placement,” Sophomore Sam McMahon said. “We were shooting right at the goalie instead of around the goalie, and that allowed Columbia to get back in it…we gave them hope that they could come back and win it in the second half...