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Nolan has pointed out that how certain Cambridge subgroups score compared to the same subgroup’s state average varies. Cambridge’s blacks students score below the state average, for example, and its Hispanics and Asians score better. The gaps in their relative achievement increased between 2003...
Still, as Nolan has pointed out, the school system has consistently performed below the state average. In 2005, 83 percent of Massachusetts students scored at the “proficient” level in ELA, compared to 77 percent in Cambridge. The numbers were 72 and 64 for math.
They stole the wrong money. last February, in Tonbridge, England, a gang of thugs pulled off an audacious $97 million heist of a cash storage depot. They were good enough to get into the warehouse (requiring military-style reconnaissance and intelligence), and good enough to get out with the loot...
I, the Jury was written and directed by Harry Essex, a specialist in science-fiction screenplays (It Came from Outer Space, The Creature from the Black Lagoon) who had no notion of alchemizing menace from pictures and performances. Shot in 3D by noir whiz John Alton, and featuring occasional thrusts...
Dr. Nazih Gharios, the head of the hospital, took me to the rooftop to survey the surrounding land. "Look there," he pointed to a deeply hollowed out patch of land. "There was the first air strike to hit the area." He was pointing no more than 100 meters away, and...