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...insult to boredom, CBS gave fans a show that did very little to tide them over until NCAA basketball vacates Thursday nights next week. In staying faithful to the arc of the show thus far, tribal council by tribal council, CBS missed a chance to give close readers a tasty treat: More unseen footage of the eight people actually still competing for the million bucks...
...Friday Harvard faced off against No. 20 Alabama in the backdraw. The Crimson never stood a chance and got blown off the court by the Crimson Tide...
...teams faced off in doubles first, and Alabama won at Nos. 1 and 3 to take the doubles point. Choo, Lee and Browne then all lost in straight sets in their singles to give the match to the Crimson Tide, while all other play was suspended in progress...
...financial institutions got in on the act, driving valuations and share prices through the roof. On March 10, 2000, Germany's Neuer Markt, France's Nouveau Marché, Italy's Nuovo Mercato and the granddaddy of the high-tech bourses, America's nasdaq, all reached new peaks. Then the tide turned, taking with it many investors, market analysts and the brash young things with their big dreams. In the past year, the combined value of all nasdaq stocks has fallen by more than $3 trillion. On this side of the Atlantic, the combined value of stocks in London's ftse...
...somebody who doesn't follow the ins and outs of testing, the events of the past couple of weeks might seem contradictory. First the president of the University of California, Richard Atkinson, made a speech proposing dropping the SAT. It looked as if testing was going into ebb tide, right? Then, a few days later, George W. Bush began his first major address as President by proposing an enormous new federally mandated regime of standardized tests for public schoolchildren, with every student being tested in reading and math every year from third through eighth grade. This would be the first...