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...scoring in the boardroom, though, MLS still has some problems on the pitch. Although the level of play has risen dramatically, it's no match for élite European leagues--and Americans clearly expect the best. The way the league is managed, each MLS team has a $2 million salary cap. You can't buy a star with that kind of money. So the league is planning to allow each team to sign one marquee player, a designated star, who won't count against the salary cap. "Our long-term goal is to be one of the world's best...
...Nolan says referring to the mismatch between the spending per pupil at CPS and its achievement scores. CPS spent an average of $13,363 per regular-education student last fiscal year, about $5,000 more than the national average. According to school officials, those numbers have risen to over $16,000 for this fiscal year. But despite this spending, Cambridge placed 253 out of 278 districts statewide on the 2005 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) 10th grade English exam. And it scored just slightly better—at 251—on the MCAS 10th grade math exam.Nolan...
...every time they drop $75 to fill their SUVs and pickups while oil companies tote up record earnings. "What upsets me more than anything is the Democrats and Republicans keep pointing fingers," says insurance salesman Bob Morris, 59, of Palestine, Texas, whose weekly gas bill for his Camry has risen to $75. "Now I'm at the point, whoever's in office, I'm ready to vote...
Late last night, the novel had jumped to number 77 on amazon.com’s book sales ranking, up from number 178 on Monday. “Sloppy Firsts” had risen from number 1,546 on Monday to number 327 yesterday on amazon.com, and “Second Helpings” had climbed from number 4,912 to number 898 on the website, where rankings are refreshed every hour...
...crisis, it won't come a day too soon, because the movement for democracy in Nepal is at an ominous tipping point. For the first two weeks of this struggle, picking the good guys out from the bad has seemed to be relatively easy: a long-suppressed people has risen up in courageous protest against a remote and autocratic monarch who repeatedly unleashed a brutal police on them. But the longer the demonstrations for democracy go on,the greater the danger that the mass movement turns into a tyranny itself. By Monday, the U.S. State Department ordered all families...