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...MCAS math exam, while Cambridge recorded a 40-to-50 percent proficiency rate on the math and English exams.‘YOU HAVE TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF’However, CRLS offers several educational programs to help its students close the gap. Honors courses are offered in all core subjects and world languages, and Advanced Placement classes are available for qualified juniors and seniors.Students also benefit from the combined resources of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), both of which sit in the school’s figurative backyard. Collaborations between the schools include Harvard CHANCE?...
That students are uninterested in taking a class like Hist10a is a fallacy. At a time when non-concentrators might fulfill their requirement with greater ease by taking any of the less burdensome, more peripheral Core courses, 40 percent of History 10a’s enrollees take the course to fulfill a Historical Study requirement, despite its tougher grading and occasional dullness...
...gruesome attack came at the end of a troubling inaugural week for Canadians embarked on what may be their most dangerous overseas mission since the Korean War. Some 2,300 soldiers have been deployed to Kandahar, where hard-core Taliban rebels determined to topple the U.S.-backed government of President Hamid Karzai retain strong local sympathy. Since the troops officially began their one-year assignment Feb. 28, two Canadians were killed when their light armored vehicle collided with a taxi, and six others have been injured. A total of 14 Canadian soldiers have been wounded in accidents, suicide bombings...
...more than 50 veterans running for Congress as Democrats this year, eight of whom are Iraq-combat veterans. Carney didn't see action in Iraq, but he was a senior intelligence analyst who served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Indeed, he was one of a core group of military-intelligence officers who studied the Iraqi insurgency over the past three years and have been frustrated by the Bush Administration's failure to bring adequate force to meet the challenge. "We told them there was going to be an insurgency," Carney tells his audience in Montrose. "Did they...
JOHNSON: There's this category that a guy at M.I.T. came up with. He coined this phrase "lead users." It's not quite right to call them early adopters because they're even kind of a step beyond that. They're the 1% or 2% of your kind of core, devoted fans that are not just buying your technology first, but they're figuring out all of the things it can do that you never thought of doing. To be able to sort of reach out and talk to that core part of the audience generating new ideas--that...