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...article on national standards for public schools makes many important points [April 27]. As an English teacher at a high school with many Navy kids, I'd love to know that students coming from other states have a common background for me to start from. But before we set standards, we need to define the purpose of a public education. Right now, public schools are trying to be all things to all people: teaching about everything from harassment to baby care, and doing much of it poorly. We need a mission statement and a definition of basic education before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

10-30.13-28.The first set of numbers is the Harvard baseball team’s record from 2008. The second—the Crimson’s record in 2009.Looking at those results, the logical conclusion to make is that Harvard had pretty similar—and pretty bad—seasons in those two years. Numbers don’t lie right?Well no, they don’t. But sometimes they mislead.2008 was a disaster for Harvard. The team was picked by Baseball America to win the Ivy League going into the season, but instead it finished dead last...

Author: By Loren Amor, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AMOR PERFECT UNION: When A Record Can Be Deceiving | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Boston Conservatory. Without missing a beat, the music infuses the performance with richness and vim, as the orchestra propels the production forward. The overture, for example, begins the show with the pit’s own “solo,” allowing smooth, instrumental sounds to set the atmosphere of the Old South. Nevertheless, some elements, including Anna B. Labykina’s set design, do disappoint. For a musical fundamentally concerned with theatricality, the physical elements of the set fail to convincingly convey the boat’s pageantry. Besides the necessities—a cane here...

Author: By Lillian Yu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BCT's 'Showboat' Quite a Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...offensively,” McMahon said. “Defensively, it was all about making big stands. [Junior goalie] Katie Martino was playing amazingly. Offensively, it was just putting it away. There’s really no explaining it.”The two teams traded two more sets of goals, and with the score tied at 3 it appeared that neither squad could exploit a weakness in its opponent’s defensive game. But Harvard would embark on a 5-0 run late in the first period, getting impressive solo shots from sophomore Jess Halpern and Flynn...

Author: By Kevin T. Chen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Ends Year With Thrilling Win | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...Exactly What I Wasn’t Looking For” develop the plot of the play by placing these pieces in different contexts. The juxtaposition of such different characters and the parallels made between their situations is effective in creating a microcosm of the college experience.The set is comprised of three partitions; stage right contains a marble stone bench and a streetlight, the center is strung up with holiday lights framing a long table strewn with red Solo cups and near-empty rum bottles, and stage left depicts a dorm room with a bunk bed and a cluttered wooden...

Author: By Minji Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Quad' Complicates Stereotypes | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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