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...describes her elementary school as a progressive school “where you only learned what you wanted.” At age 10, she could add numbers under 20, subtract without borrowing, but knew no division...
...advertise his sympathies for suicide bombers, to encourage terrorism, and even to incite to murder. The British government guaranteed his freedom of speech; the American government guarantees it while he is in this country. The Harvard English department can neither add to nor subtract from his right to say anything that he pleases...
...other activity on the grants bill, Rory S. Donald ’04 proposed an amendment to subtract $150 from the Harvard Friends of Scouting grant and divide the money equally between the cheerleading squad and Crimson Dance Team...
...ossuary is perhaps further reduced when one eliminates those belonging to the Sadducee sect, which did not believe in bodily resurrection and would have been less likely to preserve bones. (Others disagree: the high priest Caiaphas was a Sadducee, and his ossuary turned up in 1990.) One might also subtract the trios who used uninscribed ossuaries, and those whose survivors could afford no ossuary at all. When one is done subtracting, Lemaire believes, there is a 90% chance that the James on the ossuary was the biblical brother of Jesus. "I don't use the 90% figure in the article...
...these rooms, hung with wreaths and watercolors, we learned to add and subtract with translucent jewels. When we got to multiplication, we were crowned knights of the three-times table by a tap on each shoulder with a wooden sword...