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...Before Katrina, 102 of the city's schools were considered academic failures, the city had one of the nation's highest drop-out rates, most eighth-grade students had below-average test scores, and the city had had 10 superintendents in as many years, Cowen told a U.S. Senate subcommittee last month...
...time league mark for rushing yards—with 4,715 yards, he is 1,087 yards off the mark—and touchdowns, established by Brown’s Nick Hartigan last season. If Dawson gets 1,000 yards on the ground, he will become just the eighth player in Division I history to crack quadruple digits four times...
...police are accused of moonlighting as militiamen, using official vehicles and weapons. A three-car convoy belonging to Sunni M.P. Tayseer al-Mashhadani was stopped last month by 30 gunmen in a Shi'ite suburb. Al-Mashhadani and seven bodyguards were bundled into unmarked cars and driven away. An eighth bodyguard escaped and reported that the abductors had police-issue weapons. Al-Mashhadani hasn't been released. An even more audacious snatch came soon after: men in uniforms grabbed the chief of Iraq's Olympic Committee and 30 other sports officials. (Ten have been released, but the chief remains...
...more than five years old, his limbs flopping lifelessly as the two sweating rescue workers carried him across the rubble to a waiting stretcher. The grey dust and earth that matted his hair and caked his body had dulled his bright orange shorts and T-shirt. He was the eighth victim to be extracted from the horrific tomb of earth, sand and rubble in the past half hour, and the fifth child under...
When the green-glass Lever House building opened in 1952, it was called "the eighth wonder of the world." Nowadays the wonder is the building's eponymous restaurant, where chef Dan Silverman serves his imaginative seasonal menus. This cookbook allows the home cook to confidently re-create dishes like buttery cod with black-olive-and-onion confit or sorrel soup with smoked trout...