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After the talk, Summers fielded questions on recent speculation that he was interested in becoming the University's twenty-seventh president. He declined to comment on his future plans, saying only that "I am sufficiently occupied with [my work] in Washington...
Shewchuk has made a remarkable transformation in just two years. In 1999, she scored 51 goals to lead the nation. This year, she stands at just seventh in the nation with 26 goals. She was even further down the list in mid-February when she had just nine goals in her first 16 games...
...finishing seventh in the men's epee event, Cha became the first male Crimson fencer to make it to Nationals since he was a freshman...
While ETS is mining the whole K-12 market, the College Board has its eye on middle schools. This spring the company will unveil new math and English curriculums and tests designed to be like AP courses for seventh- and eighth-graders. College Board president Gaston Caperton says middle schools "are crying out" for such programs. Researchers at the College Board have also developed an SAT for eighth-graders, complete with developmentally appropriate math and verbal reasoning sections, to get kids thinking about college even sooner than they already...
Muriel Spark weaves her 21st work of fiction, Aiding and Abetting (Doubleday; 166 pages; $21), around a matter of fact: the 1974 disappearance of the seventh Earl of Lucan, who was subsequently charged with bludgeoning his children's nanny to death in a botched attempt to murder his estranged wife. Questions about this scandal have echoed in the British press ever since. Was Lord Lucan guilty? Is he still alive? If so, who helped him escape, and who has been aiding and abetting the fugitive's life in hiding ever since...