Word: comparison
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...student body at Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School is 95 percent black, and the population at the Community Charter School of Cambridge is 68 percent black. By comparison, the non-charter public schools in Cambridge are less than 40 percent black...
...more qualified academically, creative artistically, diverse in economic and gender and ethnic terms, than its predecessors. And after every admission season of high anxiety, we witness its success: the Class of 2010 will now have the opportunity to prove, over the next four years, that it can bear comparison with the great Class of 2006. Meanwhile, the admissions office has started to worry about the Class...
...something here too to further her fencing career.”He gives credit to the Harvard Athletic Department as well, saying that it has been “very, very supportive” of the program.“Being at other universities, there’s no comparison, and fencing really highlights that,” he says. “They will give you the tools you need to succeed. That’s something Harvard has that many universities don’t, [and] that’s what sets us apart...
...Ted” Donato ’91, the current head coach of Harvard men’s ice hockey, who played on the 1989 NCAA championship team under Cleary, also played in an Olympic hockey team, but said “that would probably be where the comparison ends.”“He was such a great Olympian,” he says. “I have talked to a number of older gentlemen who still refer to him as the greatest American hockey player ever.”Cleary came to Harvard...
...world. But troops number just 17,500, a tiny presence in such a large country. In February the U.N. and aid groups working in Congo asked for $682 million in humanitarian funds. So far, they have received just $94 million--or $9.40 for every person in need. By comparison, the aid group Oxfam estimates that the U.N.'s tsunami appeal last year raised $550 for each person...