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...wrestling team has been waiting all fall to unveil its full potential, and this weekend the squad fired on all cylinders.The Crimson grapplers opened their season at the Binghamton Brute Open on Saturday, bringing a full roster to Johnson, N.Y. in order to test the team’s progress. With three finalists and two overall winners, it is safe to say Harvard earned a passing grade.“Overall, if this is the way we’re going to start [the season], I’m excited,” Harvard coach Jay Weiss said...
...tenure has become a scapegoat for a whole basket of educational and financial ills responsible for the dismal test scores and disappointing graduation rates in U.S. schools. Abolishing tenure doesn't address problems of underfunding, overcrowding or improving students' home environments. And despite more than a century of social progress, the need to protect teachers from the whims (or the tyranny) of the community remains as important as ever - especially in science classrooms where the battle over evolutionary biology and creationism rages...
...This is riskier for taxpayers," says Andrew Jakabovics, an associate director at the Center for American Progress. Worse, it's not clear the program would do anything to boost the economy. Yes, consumer spending is dropping, but some economists think that is a function of confidence, not credit. "Paulson seems to be working under the impression that when it comes to consumer spending liquidity is the issue," says Dean Baker, who co-founded the Center for Economic Policy Research. "People aren't buying because they just lost a lot of money and might be about to lose their job." Lastly...
...statement to the Department of Justice that Canary had "kept up with every detail of the [Siegelman] case." If true, Conyers told Mukasey, this raises "serious concerns" because "it is difficult to imagine the reason for a recused [U.S. Attorney] to remain so involved in the day-to-day progress of the matter under recusal...
...sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against expecting conclusive results from this Saturday's G-20 summit in Washington on the world's crisis-stricken financial system, Sarkozy says he'll accept nothing short of tangible progress toward "moralizing finance markets...