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...prove their claim, Walt and Mearsheimer quote Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as having said at a meeting in the late 1930s: “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine...
...students in grades three through eight take the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams in reading and English this week, Cambridge Public Schools (CPS)-+ officials expressed mixed opinions over the use of standardized tests to gauge student performance in the wake of last month’s SAT grading debacle. The College Board, which administers the SAT, revealed last month that over 4,400 tests had been misscored in October, one by 450 points. The Massachusetts Department of Education uses MCAS scores to determine whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which...
...wake of the murder of three Canadian-Venezuelan brothers and the fatal shooting of a news photographer, protesters, many of them middle-class families fed up with widespread crime, have been marching since early Wednesday. The brothers, all teenagers ranging in age from 12 to 17, and their chauffeur were found dead late Tuesday, after they were kidnapped at a phony checkpoint on Feb. 23. by men dressed in police uniforms. The victims were found only one week after a prominent Italian-born business owner was murdered after being abducted by people also dressed as police. The Mayor of Caracas...
...wake of several failed student-led efforts at large-scale social programming, including last semester’s cancelled Wyclef Jean concert, the College has taken a more active role in event planning...
...spiky blond hair reverberating in their head. Director Marc Webb takes influence from all of his previous work—including “Helena” by My Chemical Romance, “Move Along” by the All-American Rejects, and “Wake Up” by Hilaray Duff—and welds it together to create a kaleidoscopic, Wonderland-esque adventure that makes no sense whatsoever, as befits the equally nonsensical song title. By the end, though, you’ll find yourself unable to forget the incredibly catchy chorus. —Christopher...