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The fights ought not be taken as proof that national standards are unworkable. National standards serve a much more ambitious cause than the sats, and also a nobler one - not identifying a few very smart students regardless of background, Cinderella style, but trying to ensure that all students reliably acquire...
All this leaves Bush still facing a gap between his likability and his credibility, and with his presidency staked on a $1.6 trillion tax cut that has yet to acquire the kind of public momentum to scare Senate Democrats into submission. A public Republican "high bid" - which would have allowed...
Nothing about Grammatron is stable. At its center, if there is one, is Abe Golam, the inventor of Nanoscript, a quasi-mystical computer code that some unmystical corporations are itching to acquire. For much of the story, Abe wanders through Prague-23, a virtual "city" in cyberspace where visitors indulge...
In other cases the Court has noted that if the government were to acquire the power to assert an official orthodoxy over its citizens, there would be blood spilled over the question of precisely whose orthodoxy would, and should, prevail. Each of us can envision some organization, or some person...
But still, faculty major advisers are hit or miss, and unless students take steps to acquire a faculty adviser they know, major advising can be disappointing.