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...whom are a rung lower than last year. But don?t freak out, aspiring teens and parents, the world of top-flight universities isn?t undergoing some seismic shuffle. The rankers at U.S. News are just having fun tweaking their criteria. "In general, the changes in the way we rank schools boosted the rankings of a number of universities with strong science and engineering programs," explains the magazine?s disclaimer-loaded "Methodology" article. In other words, read the fine print; this ranking, when it comes to place-by-place minutiae, is little more than an annual parlor game...
...suppose that most tourists are similar around the globe, but D.C. tourists rank above travelers to any other city. People don't come to Washington to relax or catch a show or see Elvis' house. They flock to the capital to learn, celebrate America and be the best gosh darn patriotic citizens they can be--even the foreigners, which I will never understand. During their delves into American heritage, these people really appreciate D.C. as the gorgeous marble city that it is. They appear almost childlike to me. At times I even get the impression that they think wearing...
...despite this year's rise, the scores remain slightly below state norms. Thirty-seven percent of third-graders statewide are "proficient" readers and 31 percent rank "advanced"; Cambridge, by comparison, has 31 percent and 28 percent of students in the respective categories...
...been learning about the state's history and economy, its people and problems. Once or twice on each day of her tour, she showed off her prize stat the way a dog parades a bone: "If upstate New York were a separate state," she said, "it would rank 49th in job creation and economic development." And that's more than a stat--it's an indication of how she'll run against her probable opponent, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
...first published in 1926 by Arthur Schnitzler, a Viennese playwright, physician and friend of Freud's, and has been available in paperback in the U.S. since 1995. Like a lot of the novels on which good movies are based, it is an entertaining, erotically charged fiction of the second rank, in need of the vivifying physicalization of the screen and the kind of narrative focus a good director can bring to imperfect but provocative life--especially when he has been thinking about it as long as Kubrick...