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...every turn. In those days before the SAT, many colleges designed their entrance exams, down to which passages from Homer students ought to be able to translate, and high schools tailored their lessons accordingly. But as the nation's public schools swelled and colleges started recruiting applicants from farther afield, universities lost touch with their neighborhood schools. Over time, the relations became icier, with schoolteachers carping that all they got from colleges were airy theories of school reform, spun from on high...
...every turn. In those days before the SAT, many colleges designed their entrance exams, down to which passages from Homer students ought to be able to translate, and high schools tailored their lessons accordingly. But as the nation's public schools swelled and colleges started recruiting applicants from farther afield, universities lost touch with their neighborhood schools. Over time, the relations became icier, with schoolteachers carping that all they got from colleges were airy theories of school reform, spun from on high...
...1/2-bath, two-garage house--with a terrace and servants' quarters--surrounded by gardens that bloom year round in the region's springlike climate (average temperature: 72[degrees]F). Nearby is the Cariari Country Club, an exclusive resort with an 18-hole golf course, spa and swimming pool. Further afield lie the wilds for which the country is famous: more than a quarter of Costa Rica's territory--which includes everything from cloud forests and tropical beaches to mountains and volcanic craters--is protected. A word of advice: hire a competent, English-speaking attorney--not always easy to find in this...
Jorge Ditas '01 plans to go to a costume party in Boston. One first-year entryway is going farther afield, to Salem, Mass...
...loose network of some 3,000-5,000 men, most of them Arab volunteers who fought in Afghanistan and were either unwilling or unable to return home. They maintained training camps in Afghanistan, the Sudan, Yemen and elsewhere, where they trained fighters for Islamist armies as far afield as Chechnya and western China...