Word: america
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Academy Award-winning actor and National Rifle Association (NRA) President Charlton Heston issued a call to arms last night in a cultural civil war "raging" across America...
...these protests happened in February 1999, and the targets of students' outrage are the sweatshops in Asia and Central America where the vast majority of university-licensed clothing is manufactured. Today, administrators from all the schools of the Ivy League will be meeting to decide the fate of those sweatshops and their abused workers...
Over 200 students participated in the conference, according to conference co-director Emily Y. Yang '01-'00. About half hailed from Harvard, while others traveled from universities all over North America to attend the three-day event...
...true. Many private and parochial schools assign three hours of homework a night. Now I see that some public school students are whining about three hours of homework a week! How do they ever hope to compete for entrance to colleges and universities? Let's quit dumbing down America and face the reality that one has to work, and work hard, to achieve the things that are truly meaningful. GWEN GANGER Los Angeles...
That may soon change. America's most relentless examiner, the Educational Testing Service, has developed computer software, known as E-Rater, to evaluate essays on the Graduate Management Admission Test. Administered to 200,000 business school applicants each year, the GMAT includes two 30-min. essays that test takers type straight into a computer. In the past, those essays were graded on a six-point scale by two readers. This month, the computer will replace one of the readers--with the proviso that a second reader will be consulted if the computer and human-reader scores differ by more than...