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What will be the verdict of the game film coaches and players will pour over this week? First, Cornell's eighth man in the box did not allow Harvard to run as much on first and second downs. Looking back, the Palazzo-Leiszler combination was the fuel of the offensive fire in the first half. Second, Rahne stepped up did a phenomenal job of exploiting the Crimson's more conservative and injury-riddled secondary in nickel coverage...
...settled into a boarding school in rural Kenya. There, he and other Baltimore boys who had been forced to grow up too hard and fast got a second chance to experience childhood--to climb trees, collect insects, do their homework together, read mystery novels. After attending seventh and eighth grades in Kenya, Brandon was named Most Improved Student; last month he returned to a highly regarded magnet school in Baltimore, where he just aced his first Latin test...
...spot beneath the foothills of Mount Kenya, where land is cheap and his teachers, half of whom are Kenyan, are willing to work for salaries as low as $5,000 a year. The focus is on boys (who more often than girls pose disciplinary problems) in the seventh and eighth grades. "That's when we lose them," says Embry. Baraka tries to save the boys with strong discipline, "tons and tons" of adult attention and an accelerated academic program that will be a source of pride to them when they return to Baltimore...
...judging by Gore and Bush's tug-of-war on testing the other night, the candidates think the public support for high-stakes exams is unflagging. Despite Gore's repeated protests that he supports mandatory testing (he does, sort of, but not until 2004 and only in fourth, eighth and twelfth grades), Bush would go a step further, requiring states either to test kids every year from third through eighth grade or lose 5% of federal aid. At least on the testing issue, W's the toughest kid on the playground...
Fried snagged his interception on the eighth play of the next Lafayette drive and gave the ball back to the Harvard offense, which scored again on a nine-play, 36-yard drive to increase the lead...