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...Green’s Michael Madson plunked four batters in a tide-turning sixth inning as Harvard notched five runs to shatter a tense 3-3 deadlock. The entire batting order got at least one turn at the plate as the pitcher hit senior Ian Wallace, freshman Matt Vance, and sophomore Brendan Byrne in order to load the bases three separate times...
...MOVEMENT TO IMPOSE standards and accountability on public schools began long before Bush took office. In 1983, a landmark federal study, A Nation at Risk, warned of a "rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future." Politicians dutifully increased education spending, but no one--not Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush or Bill Clinton--had the political nerve to back up expectations for improvement with consequences if schools failed to measure...
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) has caused his fellow Republicans one headache after another, and it appears that the tide of support for DeLay within the Grand Old Party is beginning to ebb. Admonished last year by the House Ethics Committee, DeLay has recently been facing renewed questions about more improper dealings. In January, GOP leadership rammed through legislation altering ethics rules—changes which many Democrats felt served only to protect DeLay from a full-blown ethics investigation. Last Wednesday, however, the Republican-dominated House voted to repeal these changes. We applaud the Republican decision...
...Some people got a little too into them and they became distracting rather than helpful,” reported Brown, a fan of the Hans Zimmer theme from the Jerry Bruckheimer movie “Crimson Tide,” adding, “it’s fun to have them while they last...
...tougher line on immigration, an issue that arouses deep passions and therefore needs to be handled delicately. The Tories have not been very delicate. Their remarkable campaign slogan, "Are you thinking what we're thinking?," is meant to be provocative, a sly reference to fears of a flood tide of mask-wearing extremists and veiled women invading England's pale land. If the polls can be believed, fear mongering hasn't helped the Tory effort. The third-place Liberal Democrats are led by Charles Kennedy, who has moved the party from bland moderation to more promising territory on the antiwar...