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...Gilmour devotes just a small portion of the book to Victoria and Disraeli. The Indian Civil Service (ICS) becomes the preliminary focus of Gilmour’s book, which includes letters, pictures, and diagrams that encompass the British experience within their precious jewel of India...
Even though Gilmour’s literary scope only covers a small portion of this era in history, it is still engaging and informative...
...standardized testing is an inappropriate and ineffectual solution that should not be pursued.Two main arguments have been made in support of testing: first, that the results will assist consumers in gauging the value of education from particular institutions, and second, that something should be done about the substantial portion of students who are leaving college without even a basic set of skills, such as the ability to read complex texts or draw inferences. On neither account is standardized testing the right answer. The value of the college experience, by its very nature, cannot be easily categorized or quantified. Ranging from...
...endowment, yet is hardly Vatican bailout money. But those figures are only part of the picture. Opus members and its sympathizers, known as "cooperators," can be very generous, and their funds hard to track. Allen's research suggests that a most likely unexpected $60 million gift (a hefty portion of its total U.S. assets) financed much of the Manhattan building. Longlea, the group's Washington-area mansion, was donated by a couple who had just bought it for $7.4 million. Father Michael Barrett, an Opus Dei priest who pastors a chapel in Houston, recently raised $4.3 million...
...oval is in its long distance runners, sweeping the top spots in the 5000 meter race. Kelly won the event by crossing the line in 5:10.09, while Hafer finished a ways behind him in second in 5:28.13. Freshman Derek Jones led the way in the sprinting portion of the meet by taking third in the 400 meter dash with a time of 49.84 in the finals. Fellow classman Nils Wernerfelt followed up Jones with ninth in the same event. Sophomore Haibo Lu took eighth in the 800 meter run, with Manny Karngar of Rhode Island College...