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...kids.” ‘GUILTY OF LOW AIM’While the graduation rate is up and more students have been passing the MCAS in recent years, some residents say that doing well on standardized tests is not the best indicator of academic prowess. “We should celebrate, but I think using the state standard and looking at passing, as opposed to advanced level, makes us guilty of low aim,” said Mayor E. Denise Simmons, at a committee meeting when the graduation rate data for last year was publicized. Eighty-eight percent...
...manure. He leaned against the door frame. If she tottered just a step, if she relaxed her taut body just a little, she would touch him. “As you wish, Viscountess,” he said. “I mean not to boast of my prowess, but I am an excellent rider.”Felicity’s mouth went dry. She wagered he was. She asked: “Tell me, will it be hard?”He barely smiled at her this time, just gazed at her with heavy-lidded eyes...
...blue-collar workers to mixed results. His six-day bus tour across the state, meant to showcase his approachability, was a series of awkward photo-ops. And another soaring speech, like the one he delivered in Philadelphia last month to address the race issue, might only underline an intellectual prowess that some perceive as elitist...
...Eiffel Tower to show their support for the Tibetan people during a day of events that was to wrap up with concerts in the evening. Activists in Paris, like their peers in London the previous day, turned an event intended to highlight China's growing political and economic prowess into a police-harnessed reflection of how China treats dissent...
...John Kerry told George Stephanopoulos on March 30 on ABC's This Week, "If you're going to be campaigning in Pennsylvania, it's good to have Ed Rendell with you ... Better to have him with you than against you." Kerry should know. Rendell, whose fund-raising and organizational prowess are the stuff of legend in Pennsylvania politics, was Kerry's biggest asset in that all-important swing state four years ago, when he squeezed out a two-point victory over George W. Bush there. Had the 2004 Democratic nominee managed to do the same in neighboring Ohio, Kerry would...