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Article: In Bulgaria, a Lesson About Hard Times; American College of Sofia Reopens Only to Face Financial Crisis
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- The Washington Post
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- February 8, 1997
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It is 10 o'clock on an icy February morning in Bulgaria, and
teenagers are playing baseball.
Not everywhere, of course. But on the handsome suburban campus
of the American College of Sofia, it is a habit the Bulgarian
students have picked up from their American instructors these last
few years.
The American College, which actually is a high school, was
founded by missionaries in 1860. It is among the world's oldest
American-run schools outside the United States. It is also among the
best, with average SAT scores that would make any Montgomery County
high school principal drool.
Closed for 50 years by the Communists, the school reopened
after the Berlin Wall fell. This spring it ...