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...other business, the Council discussed proposed regulatory requirements from the federal government that threaten to dramatically change the oversight process which Harvard imposes on researchers in all fields...
...encourages people to risk their lives. Campaigning against the act has become the centerpiece of Fidel Castro's domestic propaganda efforts in the wake of the Elian Gonzalez case, but that doesn't mean Havana will use Thursday's previously scheduled immigration talks with U.S. officials in Washington to threaten, once again, to open the spigots. (The current arrangement was negotiated between the two governments, which have no official diplomatic relations, after Castro for a brief period in August 1994 allowed anyone who could get onto a flotation device to leave, creating a "boat people" crisis for the authorities...
...team to be dominated by professional players. No Jordans, no Magics. Team members, players like Alonzo Mourning, Steve Smith and Jason Kidd, are top NBA players who have come to the Olympics because they thought it might just be fun and meaningful. None of these players is going to threaten to choose a Nike swoosh over the U.S. Olympic uniform as Jordan and some of his mates nearly did. "This team is doing what Olympic athletes do," says team spokesman and co-captain Craig Miller. "They're going to visit the Olympic Village, attend the opening ceremonies, stand in line...
...many struggling students, whose scores threaten to drag down a school's overall rating, find themselves shunted from the exam room. That apparently was the case at TSU/HISD Laboratory School, a tiny, predominantly African-American school near downtown Houston. After 93% of students passed all parts of the exam in 1998, the school won an "exemplary" state rating. But just one year later, only 62% passed. What happened? In 1998, 39% of students SAT out the exam after they were deemed "special ed," a designation generally confined to students with severe learning disabilities. The next year, after a district crackdown...
...many struggling students, whose scores threaten to drag down a school's overall rating, find themselves shunted from the exam room. That apparently was the case at TSU/HISD Laboratory School, a tiny, predominantly African-American school near downtown Houston. After 93% of students passed all parts of the exam in 1998, the school won an "exemplary" state rating. But just one year later, only 62% passed. What happened? In 1998, 39% of students sat out the exam after they were deemed "special ed," a designation generally confined to students with severe learning disabilities. The next year, after a district crackdown...