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...says an unprecedented number of teachers have already been put on notice. But she cannot give teachers the huge raises she proposed unless the union agrees to a new contract. So this approach will be slower, more litigious and less inspiring. In other words, it will be all stick and no carrot. It's hard to say if anyone else would have been able to persuade the union to trade away tenure for cash bonuses, but Rhee's sometimes dismissive attitude made it harder for some teachers to trust...
...college years, spirituality is a protean thing. Most high schoolers tend to follow their parents' religion, often without actually knowing many of its basic tenets and stories (half of U.S. high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married). That may be why religion doesn't stick once they go off to college: a UCLA study published in 2007 found that undergrads become less observant as they get older, with 44% of incoming freshmen attending religious services frequently, compared with just 25% of juniors. At the same time, however, religion becomes more important to them, with 50% of juniors saying...
Only time will tell whether or not Obama will stick to his word. History, certainly, is not on his side. Despite its steady criticism of human rights violations abroad, the United States government has a disconcerting tendency to its power not as a means of preventing the more despicable cases of crimes against humanity, but as a strategic or political tool...
...Harvard found the back of the net for the first time at 4:08 in the second period. Moriarty won a faceoff in the Colgate zone and passed the puck back to co-captain Brian McCafferty, who returned the puck back to Moriarty. Moriarty fought to stick the puck in behind Raiders goaltender Charles Long for his first career Harvard goal. The Crimson scored again to tie the game at 2-2 halfway through the third period. Killorn received the puck from Rogers on the blue line. After beating one Raiders defender, Killorn skated the puck wide and took...
...offensive zone. “We took penalties in not dangerous situations, such as offensive zone penalties, a lot of bad decisions,” Donato said. “Against good teams, the margin doesn’t need to be that big to make it stick up, and that’s what Cornell did.” Harvard struck first just 5:41 after the opening faceoff thanks to the stick of sophomore Michael Biega, who fought for a loose puck behind the Cornell net and then stuffed in a wrap-around on the right post...