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...upgrade its strategic forces and proceed with deployment of NATO missiles. And the Soviet Union needs to be persuaded that the West will not shrink from nuclear competition if its proposals for arms reductions are spurned. In a television address last week, Ronald Reagan confronted this complicated balancing act by graphically depicting what he claims is Moscow's "margin of superiority" while broaching a surprising and controversial idea for preventing nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archive: Reagan for the Defense | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

While the majority of the schools that require the SAT II are members of a selective elite, some peer schools, including Yale, accept the ACT in lieu of both the SAT I and SAT II tests...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fitzsimmons Defends SAT II | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

Harvard currently requires applicants to submit scores from three SAT II tests—which examine mastery of specific subjects rather than general reasoning—in addition to either the SAT I or the ACT tests...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fitzsimmons Defends SAT II | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...ACT has sections in English, math, reading, and science, along with an optional writing section. Ed Colby, a spokesman for the ACT, called the ACT “a curriculum based achievement test” as compared to the SAT, a reasoning test...

Author: By Lingbo Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fitzsimmons Defends SAT II | 3/21/2008 | See Source »

...standing law was written in 2005, after a mother and doctor provoked the death of a young man who no longer wanted to live in his paralyzed, virtually shut-in condition. Marie Humbert - the mother of that man - has continued denouncing the law for only allowing the passive act of interrupting life-sustaining treatment. Some 300,000 people have signed Humbert's petition to depenalize active euthanasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Sets French Euthanasia Debate | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

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