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Just how good is the Harvard women's track team? Good enough to be ranked eighth in the nation by the U.S. Track Coaches Associations Power Rankings. The men's team is ranked 27th out of the participating schools...
...like wearing shorts and skirts that show my stomach," says Tonya Rodriguez, an eighth-grader at Seven Springs Middle School in New Port Richey, Fla. "I have a really flat stomach, and I like it." Her principal, Roni Sushko, isn't quite so charmed. She has cited Tonya, 13, for dress-code violations eight times since the beginning of the school year, suspending her on two of those occasions. Tonya's infractions include wearing miniskirts and spaghetti-strap tops, which run afoul of regulations that the school's county instituted last year. The new code specifies that all skirts...
...wake of the surprising vote, however, school officials scrapped plans for an open house for eighth graders and their parents at the high school that was set for Tuesday...
Given what Chinese have learned of Tibet for the past half-century, it's hard to believe they would venture near the place. Eighth-grade textbooks omit mention of Buddhism, emphasizing instead that before China's army "peacefully liberated" the province, "it practiced the darkest, most barbaric system of slavery in human history." Films like the 1963 Serfs, seen in childhood by nearly all Chinese, show venal monks digging out people's eyeballs to settle debts and stretching the skin of dead serfs over drum heads. Communist propaganda vilifies exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama as a "splittist" seeking...
...Eagle Scout and recent recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Clark was very active in the Boy Scouts--until his appointment as the eighth Dean of the Faculty of the Business School in 1995. Though he is no longer a scoutmaster, Clark still keeps his Boy Scout uniform in his office at the Business School...