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...three years, Sternberg has been working on a new test to augment the SAT, one that asks students to write captions for New Yorker cartoons, dictate stories into tape recorders and persuade friends to help haul a bulky mattress up a flight of stairs. These unorthodox tasks are designed to measure the creative and practical skills that Sternberg says are crucial to success in college and in life but are ignored by the typical pencil-and-paper exam. If Sternberg succeeds in quantifying these types of intelligence--and linking them to concrete accomplishments--his efforts may change forever...
...absorb the changes resulting from the high-tech revolution and a global consumer culture." Living History is, first and last, a political memoir, and the leaden formalities of the genre apply. It is also the memoir of an active--and very ambitious--politician. The Senator is looking to augment her political viability. She reveals that she once went hunting and killed a duck (Chelsea was horrified). She reveals that she met with a bipartisan prayer group (including James Baker's wife Susan). She tosses in lectures about the evils of terrorism and her admiration for the military. Occasionally, she hurls...
...ended their 21-day occupation of Mass. Hall when the University agreed to appoint a new committee to examine employee pay rates and other employment practices. Harvard implemented most of the committee’s recommendations, which suggested one-time pay increases for employees but no promise to continually augment wages...
...study rather than burrow in the safer insignificance of our ideas. The more we deny (or fail to appreciate) the political import of art, deconstructing its minutiae rather than debating its argument, the more, as Madeleine S. Elfenbein ’04 put it in a recent column, we augment the mutually reinforcing powerlessness of what we learn. It doesn’t take a draft to engage a university more directly with the problems of war; it takes the audacity to make bigger claims about the purpose of a liberal arts education. As we read British war poetry...
...however, with his family now living in Grand Haven, Mich., Bolger and his mother decided he should augment their private curriculum with courses at Muskegon Community College. “No matter how skilled one parent is, it is still only one person,” he says...