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...collegiate runner, no one knew what to expect from a rookie heralding from a small Catholic high school in California. But Samantha Silva appeared to be more than comfortable at center-stage as she claimed first place in the Iona College Meet of Champions over the weekend. Silva mustered up an extra burst of energy to close the race with a stellar 22:35.41 and lead her teammates to victory. The Crimson women outran Ivy rivals Penn and Yale at the famed New York City cross country course, Van Cortlandt Park, and bested nationally ranked No. 21 Wisconsin. Silva...
...women competed without their best athletes, as none of the team captains hit the course. Senior Chas Gillespie, junior Dan Chenowith and juniors Jamie Olson and Claire Richardson all sat out on Saturday, but the women’s squad proved undaunted, as Harvard dominated the field. Freshman Sammy Silva won the women’s 6k race in 22:35.43, giving her an 18-second margin of victory in her first race for the Crimson. “I think she did really well,” sophomore Jeanne Mack said. “In her first collegiate race...
Stone extends his rigorous dichotomy to the film's structure. The first half focuses on Chávez, the second on other South American heads of state who tilt to the port side: Brazil's Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Paraguay's Fernando Lugo, Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Argentina's Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Bolivia's Evo Morales and the grand old man of social revolution, Raúl Castro. (Stone profiled Raúl's brother in a similarly indulgent 2003 poli-doc, Commandante.) The only missing socialist leader is Daniel Ortega, President of Nicaragua...
...movie's second half has more appeal to a general audience, perhaps because most of the other Presidents are less famous or notorious than Chávez, perhaps because the first half has conditioned us to a rigorously genial treatment of them. Lula da Silva brags that Brazil paid off the IMF debt and that the country now has a $260 billion surplus. (Irmao, can you spare us a dime?) Morales, the first indigenous President of Bolivia, says he considers himself "less a President than a union leader." The Illinois-educated Correa says smilingly that the U.S. can again have...
...basic state allotment. And, some ask, if a school is low-performing, if the teachers or curriculums or parental involvement isn't up to snuff, how much good will more class time really do? "You can't just extend time in these schools by 30%," says Elena Silva, an analyst with Education Sector, an independent think tank. "That in and of itself is not going to work as a strategy to turn around schools...