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...think you were caught in the middle of a good old my-dad-can-beat-up-your-dad schoolyard brawl. You'd be right. And it's not just wannabe residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who are in this tussle. As the stakes of standardized tests have risen dramatically over the past few years, tying student promotion and teacher bonuses to the results of one stressful afternoon darkening ovals with a no. 2 pencil, some parents have begun a backlash. Many are keeping their kids home on test days and staging noisy, headline-grabbing rallies in protest. In response, some...
Already during Keohane's term the Duke endowment has risen from $600 million to $1.68 billion...
When New York Times reporters James Risen and Jeff Gerth broke it on March 6, 1999, the story of Wen Ho Lee carried the plot line of a first-rate cold war thriller. In case the gravity of the security breach was lost on readers, the Times evoked the memory of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of--and executed for--leaking nuclear secrets from the same lab to the Soviet Union. The paper quoted a former CIA official as saying the case was "going to be just as bad as the Rosenbergs...
Light said this is still a problem, although the percentage of the University's holdings invested in venture capital has risen because of the exceptional growth in this sector...
Light said this is still a problem, although the percentage of the University's holdings invested in venture capital has risen because of the exceptional growth in this sector...