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Yesterday's Financial Times headline said it all: "US students flunk test." Confirming what we already knew, but were afraid to admit, a recent international study of high school seniors found the math and science skills of the U.S. students to be among the worst of the nations participating in the survey. The Financial Times adds insult to injury, noting (in their U.S. edition only) that "the US only scored higher than three nations--Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa." These results offer us another opportunity to take a more serious look at President Clinton's plan for national standards...
...give women access to the Harvard of yesterday. For the past 55 years, Radcliffe has worked with Harvard to invent and build a new undergraduate experience. Radcliffe created the first real space for women's education in Cambridge by bringing Harvard professors to women when Harvard College refused to admit them. Since 1943, undergraduates at Harvard University have had a unique co-educational experience jointly shaped by Harvard and Radcliffe. The full meaning and history of both Colleges are thus intricately tied together...
...true that the entire lives of some students have become centered around these games. In one Yard dorm, video game players admit that the activity of their entryway revolves around their four brightly colored Nintendo 64 controllers. All of these students voice loud support for "Bond," their favorite game. (Note: The word "Bond" must be yelled.) In accordance with his obsession, Jamil K. Shamasdin hopes to redecorate his common room with "Bond chairs...to serve as thrones for our pasttime." "Bond chairs" are something like airport chairs with an attached table--but the unique furniture piece is impossible to describe...
...admit: the utility of what I know is debatable: Fred "Mr." Rogers is an ordained Presbyterian minister. Henry Mancini (late composer of such classics as "The Pink Panther" and "Moon River") wrote the theme to the TV show "What's Happening?" The programs "Perfect Strangers," "Family Matters," "Full House" and "Step by Step" all co-exist in the same fictional universe because either Steve Urkel or a member of the Winslow family has appeared on each of them...
...Lott might grudgingly admit, calling Mideast shots these days is no mean feat. Annan even got the unqualified support of Richard Butler, the UNSCOM chief who was recently hauled up before the secretary general for impolitic comments. The accord should help complete weapons inspections within the year, said Butler: "If [the Iraqis] follow what is in Kofi Annan's document and really cooperate with us... we are talking a relatively good, short time." So it'll all be over by Christmas...