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Duncan and his siblings spent each weekday afternoon helping out at their mother's center on the corner of 46th and Greenwood. After the tutoring, everyone would shoot some hoops. Those were his evenings. During the day, Duncan attended the prestigious University of Chicago Lab School, a rigorous K-12 program that led him to Harvard. There he graduated magna cum laude while maintaining his obsession with basketball, co-captaining the team his senior year. After college and a failed tryout with the Boston Celtics, Duncan flew to Australia to play in that nation's professional basketball league. He stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

Duncan has spent a lot of time in his new job crisscrossing the country, talking to teachers, teachers' unions, school boards and teachers' colleges about the need to shake things up and change the way they all do business. Finn says Duncan's courage in speaking truth to the educational establishment is his greatest achievement, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Arne Duncan (And $5 Billion) Fix America's Schools? | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

With the injury, however, Evans will have to look for different ways to contribute this season. Although no plans have officially been announced for the remainder of the season, Evans has spent the past few days helping her teammates at practice...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Crimson Loses Top Recruit to Injury | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Having taken direct action, Israel apparently used diplomacy more to handle fallout from its actions. Though the Israeli government announced and then maintained in the face of doubting by its press that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spent a full day incommunicado last week because he was visiting a secret Israeli base, it has since admitted Netanyahu leased a private jet from an Israeli citizen and flew to Russia for the day, where he spoke in secret...

Author: By Alexander R. Konrad | Title: Eyeing Israeli Intervention | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

...Holly is a really, really good player,” Tachibana said. “It was a tough match and very competitive....I really like the team at Harvard, and can’t wait for the regular season.” Cao, originally from Australia, spent the majority of last year injured, and sees this tournament, and season, as a chance to make a comeback. “During my freshman year I was injured, which obviously disrupted my training schedule,” Cao said. “But I went home over the summer, and worked...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Young Talent Finds Early-Season Success | 9/14/2009 | See Source »

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