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...stick. “It’s what I’m used to going at,“ Cohen added. “So I saw the opening and took it.” In addition to giving Harvard its second victory in a row over a ranked opponent, Cohen helped avenge last year’s disappointing loss to Denver. Just over twelve months ago, the Crimson appeared to have the Pioneers beat when with 24 seconds left in the game Denver scored two goals to defeat Harvard. “I think we had last year...
...Some senior and mid-level staff members are uncertain about signing on for a new regime that could have the intensity of a campaign. Bolten will "expect everyone to be on the job in a new and invigorated way," according to a colleague. "That's the benefit, but the rank and file can expect things to be more rigorous." Associates say he wants clearer lines of authority and delineation of duties...
...Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test, or FCAT, is already being used to grade schools and distribute funds. Now critics like the state's biggest teachers union argue the test is about to be used for another task for which it was never designed. Can test scores accurately rank the physical education teacher whose encouragement prompts a student to improve math scores or the art teacher whose class is the only reason a 17-year-old stays in school, those same critics ask. How, in short, do you financially apportion the contributions of everyone from special education teachers and speech pathologists...
...they appear to be the mark of a middle-aged man who may be clinging too closely to the past. "The saddest thing to me," says ESPN commentator Skip Bayless (who has called Gossage a "throw-hard blowhard"), is "the ex-athlete who can't let go." Gossage's rank dismissal of the talent ("The pitchers can't pitch") and fortitude ("The game is getting really soft") of today's players, as well as the character of younger baseball writers ("They don't have any respect for the game"), is destructive nostalgia, experts say. "If you look back, far into...
...school in Arles each year. Few emerge successful. But Savalli's instructor, Paco Leal, saw something in the boy that set him apart. "Mehdi had a lot of ambition," says Leal. "And with ambition you can overcome all kinds of other things." Today, Savalli is one of the highest-ranked novilleros (apprentice bullfighters) in Spain. Last year, he received the grisly honor of 52 ears and two tails during his 34 fights, as well as the Golden Shoe award, perhaps the greatest achievement for a novillero. This year he is again poised to rank near the top before becoming...