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Although the team's overall finish at the Intercollegiate Fencing Association Championships last weekend had been relatively disappointing, this weekend's showing is a better inidication of the skill level the team has reached...
...Colorado Avalanche spent a second round draft pick on him in 1998 because of his offensive ability. Though Moore has been the team's leading scorer for the past three seasons, he entered Saturday's game with just six goals on the season and 28 points. With his skill, this could have been a breakout season with at least 40 points next to his name...
Harvard stands just as good a chance as any to win the ECAC championship as all of its lines pose distinct offensive threats. The Dominic Moore line combines skill and speed to finesse the opposition. The unit of senior center Harry Schwefel, freshman Kenny Turano and Nowak have superb chemistry and can just grind the opposition down on the wall until offense arrives. And the captain's unit is almost a perfect blend of both styles...
...inevitable backlash began, two arguments emerged. The one that drew more media attention charged that the test was inherently biased against blacks and Latinos, who to this day score worse on average than whites. The other was that SAT scores measure only the ability to take the SAT--a skill that, depending on your ability to pay, you could pick up in a coaching class (a growth industry that in 1999 alone raked in $400 million). Aside from that class inequality, the test's failure to measure anything meaningful also meant that kids were spending a lot of time fretting...
...creating such a distant atmosphere is an uncanny skill for a man who grew up on Manhattan's intellectual Upper West Side. The son of a hat manufacturer, whose maternal grandmother fled from revolutionary Russia, Furst found his literary inspiration in France. He became a "pathological Francophile" the day in 1965 when he lay on his back after a picnic in the town square of Grignan and "felt the blood in the earth" of Provence. Paris, where he lived for eight years before moving to Sag Harbor, N.Y., in 1993, remains for him the center of Western civilization, the "consolation...