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...schools) to higher educational standards. What's more, unlike the old-style multiple-choice exams, in which lucky guesses often padded scores, tests in more and more states now include subjective "performance questions" that ask students to craft essays and show their work on math problems. What's at stake in these new breeds of tests can be everything from a school's accreditation to teachers' bonuses to a student's high school diploma...
...suppose she's right? Chaos theory is pretty hard to take as it is, let alone on Valentine's Day, when exclusivity in love is what's at stake. Won't you be my Valentine? My irrepeatable, irreplaceable Valentine? Surely the implication of the day is that you were meant for me, I was meant for you. That movie Sliding Doors. What was that all about if not that the right she was destined to meet the right...
...women's hockey teams in the country will battle for the nation's No. 1 ranking and sole possession of first place in the ECAC at the Bright Hockey Center Saturday in a 2 p.m. face-off. This time, however, there is more at stake. Harvard wants to win this game for personal reasons, as well...
Quaker sophomore Elisabeth Alexander put herteam ahead briefly with a jumper at the other end,but on the Crimson's ensuing possession, Egelhoffbarked for the ball at one o'clock, took a dishfrom Monti and flung a screaming liner through therim. After a Penn miss, Monti pushed the stake ineven further, hitting a wide open three from theright corner after Janowski astutely passed out ofa triple team in the high post...
...left asking--just as it did last year when Daimler-Benz and Chrysler forged the world's largest industrial marriage--which companies will be next? There is talk that DaimlerChrysler has eyes for debt-ridden Nissan. But Japanese automakers have been reluctant to sell more than a minority stake to foreign partners. Toyota remains a respected global player but has suffered along with the economies of all the Asian countries. Similarly, General Motors remains the world's largest automaker, with lucrative foreign alliances, but was set back by last year's strike...