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With the new "High School Redesign" process championed by Mayor Anthony Galluccio that began last spring, we have seen a potential for better results for all students at CRLS. Among other changes implemented this year, students were assigned through a semi-random process to the different schools rather than allowed to choose among them, and the schools' curricula and teaching staff were standardized. This move increased the diversity of the students, both racially and with regard to achievement level, ending the segregation of more academically talented students in certain schools away from the general high school population. This positive step...
...chairman's second trip up the Hill this year, this time for his semi-annual courtesy call on Phil Gramm's Senate Finance Committee, Greenspan started off with the good news. Though "for the period ahead, downside risks predominate," Greenspan said - despite some surprising January strength, including Tuesday morning's retail sales numbers - the long-term economic picture "remains quite favorable...
...first glance, the semi-isolation of the Olofstorp contingent seems an indefensibly cynical attempt to insulate them from the ethnic and racial diversity that is increasingly the norm in Sweden. Ekenberg sees it differently. "We don't segregate. We have classes that are 50% immigrant and 50% Swedish," he insists. "We try to put them together as much as we can." He says the main reason the children from Olofstorp pursue most of their studies together is the school's policy of keeping incoming classes as intact as possible, regardless of where the students hail from. That is why Katarina...
College days can be a time for fanciful play and practical jokes--as both The Crimson and our rival the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine--can both attest. Thus it came as no surprise when Lampoon editor Vali D. Chandrasekaran '03 attempted to break into the Crimson Jan. 2, continuing the two publications' long-standing tradition of petty thievery and mischief...
...means a range of solutions will have to be considered. Instead of going to one country or the other, can Kashmir remain permanently divided along the present lines, its boundary perhaps reshaped a little to show that each side can concede territory? Or should it become an independent or semi-autonomous state with loose links to its two mighty neighbors...