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...Crimson, which began last year with a subpar 4-6 record, ended up battling Princeton for the Ivy championship before losing in five games. Harvard finished the year with an impressive record (20-13, 5-2 Ivy) and began this year with the hopes of fulfilling its championship dreams by combining new talent with experienced finesse...
Draper's initiative is different from Florida's voucher law, signed by Governor Jeb Bush but now under court challenge. The initiative would not target low-income families or subpar schools. "If it were for just one type of person, it would mean more bureaucracy," he says. Draper's polls show that an across-the-board voucher has more chance of passage. Indeed, Bishop Charles Blake, of the West Angeles Church of God in Christ, where Draper met with pastors, endorses the measure, which would be a boon to his 230-pupil Christian academy. But the Rev. Cecil Murray...
...here we are, careening into July, and I've seen only two movies since Memorial Day. And those weren't even "real" movies; they were low-budget art-house "films" made with grainy resolution and subpar sound. It's not that I didn't enjoy "The Croupier" and "Hamlet," (OK, I didn't really enjoy "The Croupier" so much), it's just that I've been so well conditioned by the Hollywood machine to expect blockbusters from May through September. (Think "Independence Day," "Deep Impact," "Star Wars".) And now I find myself fighting off low-grade depression...
...past decade than most other companies, has so far spent this year giving it back, one reason CEO Douglas Ivester was booted recently. Last fall P&G's archrival Unilever, whose massive arsenal includes Lipton iced tea, Dove soap and Wisk detergent, decided to jettison 1,000 subpar brands...
...Florida is the only state to make vouchers available to parents in all underperforming schools. In this system, if a school averages subpar grades on state standardized tests in consecutive years, parents are offered $3,389 vouchers that can be used for private, parochial or other public schools. Despite signs that it's been somewhat successful (a mostly flattering story about the program ran on the front page of the New York Times on Tuesday), Judge Ralph Smith Jr. ruled in favor of voucher opponents, reasoning that it illegally funnels public funding into private schools. Both sides of the lawsuit...