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...Mayor Fenty says he still has full confidence in Rhee, and he claims that Washington residents share his enthusiasm. "Regular people love the fact that for once someone is making tough decisions for D.C. schools," says Fenty, who attended the district's public schools. But the disconnect between Rhee's confident, sweeping rhetoric and the tortured reality is sizable, and it is most apparent at ground level, in the schools she is trying to save...
...billion budget and reports to more than 80 committees, is still a source of much frustration and shame in Washington. So a governor known for getting things done may be the best hope for taming the bureaucracy. "DHS needs a strong manager, and she appears to be a tough cookie," says a Democratic Senate staffer. "I predict zero problem with her confirmation on the Hill...
...tough weekend on the road for the Harvard men’s hockey team. After suffering a loss to No. 14 Cornell on Friday night, the Crimson barely escaped from Colgate on Saturday night with a 2-2 tie after being forced to come back from a two-goal deficit.“I guess it was nice to get at least one point on the weekend,” co-captain Jimmy Fraser said. “As a team, we thought we should have had a better result. Personally, I’m disappointed...
...give Yale the offensive edge it needed.“This team, I said it last week at Penn, we have not been a dominant team in any respect. We’ve just been a team that’s been extremely resilient, very mentally tough, and when we’ve had to come up with a big play we did,” Murphy said.“We had plays like that almost every game, we certainly had our share of those last week at Penn,” Murphy added. “Again...
...commanding fashion with a 190-110 victory, winning 10 out of the 16 events. “Columbia is a great team,” Crimson coach Stephanie Morawski said. “They put up a really strong lineup. We knew that they were going to be tough and pushed ourselves for the results.” The Crimson came into this meet feeling a bit of pressure. “A lot of the team was nervous. Columbia had posted some fast times near the start of the season, and we knew that [the Lions] were going...