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...committee unanimously voted to scrap the race-conscious assignment system because similar programs had come under constitutional attack in recent years, according to Charles V. Willie, a professor emeritus at the Graduate School of Education. The committee replaced it with a plan that focused on socioeconomic diversity...

Author: By Jamison A. Hill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Schools Adjust to Affluent Influx | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...cellar won’t be guaranteed tonight, though: Princeton, utilizing the scrap of pride it still retains, will beat the Bears...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AROUND THE IVIES: Ivy Season Winds Down To Familiar End | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

...fact that people love pop-ups means things intended to be ephemeral might return. Although every last scrap of the Reindeer?from the private dining log cabins to the cups and saucers?was sold off, Waddington and Flack are already being asked about next year and are talking about a '50s-theme Christmas pop-up, this time in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style on the Fly | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...move suggests that Faust may be poised to scrap the development strategies of former President Lawrence H. Summers, who appointed Rapier, a former Harvard Business School (HBS) chief financial officer...

Author: By Laurence H. M. holland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fundraising VP to Resign | 2/27/2007 | See Source »

...electricity wastage, but what about the rest of the environmental mess that comes with using a computer? The energy-intensive process of refining and molding plastic means that your computer monitor alone is responsible for a cloud of emissions. And when you eventually toss that monitor on the scrap pile, it'll take years to break down and will likely leak a pool of chemical nasties into the ground. But computing doesn't have to cost the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your PC is P.C. | 2/21/2007 | See Source »

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