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...unfair, about a nationwide system of funding that provides the least amount of money to the most impoverished students. But cries of poverty obscure the role of other, equally powerful forces that determine how well a school system manages the money it does get. Each year, schools receive a torrent of funds. Exactly where this money ends up, however, is often something of a mystery, embedded in budgets that might as well have been written in Sanskrit...
...motley collection of rocks on the Martian flood plain called Ares Vallis at last had names of their own. And back on Earth last week, the Pathfinder scientists who had playfully nicknamed the rocks were enjoying, as one of them phrased it, "a rock festival," reveling in the torrent of data being yielded by the rock stars and their surroundings...
...guessing game, with answers ranging from new co-stars (Pitt is currently in New York City making Meet Joe Black) to suggestions that it's all a ploy designed to distract the press from what would have been the year's most ogled nuptials. Pitt already faced one unwelcome torrent of attention this month when it was revealed that Heinrich Harrer, the character he plays in Seven Years in Tibet, who is meant to be a good guy, went on to serve the Third Reich in real life. As for Duets, in which he was supposed to star with Paltrow...
...swimming upstream with a torrent coming down," said Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '51, chair of the FAS Committee on Information Technology...
Gates has authored a torrent of books ranging from academic treatises to collections of personal essays as well as authoring a bi-monthly column for the New Yorker Magazine. This year he also co-edited the first Norton Anthology of African American Literature and The Dictionary of Global Culture...