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...indicator among many--all of which cast light on the type of background that may have affected the scores. But few admissions officers think the tests' imperfections impairs their ability to predict performance. Ignoring the tests because they suggest that poorer students have less education smacks of "killing the bearer of bad news," says Robert E. Klitgaard '68, special assistant to President Bok and a testing expert, contending that admissions committees must consider a student's preparedness. Yale's David concedes both tests can be culturally biased, but that college admissions is not the place to address that basis...
...Amish in Lawrence County. He differs from his neighbors for reasons other than the fact that he is not a Byler or a Swatzentrooper or a Hofstader or the bearer of some other traditionally Amish name. Lee is different because he has done something that the Amish rarely do. He has ended up in court. His offense: refusing to pay Social Security taxes for 30 Amish men who worked for him over an eight-year period as carpenters, building houses. The Internal Revenue Service claimed that he owed the Government $27,000. Lee challenged the IRS ruling in federal district...
...journalists, and scholars are uniting around comprehensive policy proposals pragmatically tailored to the demands of the times. Celebrated in a recent Esquire article as "the neoliberals," they take as their manifesto Sen. Paul Tsongas's The Road From Here and point to Sen. Gary Hart as a possible standard-bearer in the 1984 presidential race. These two youthful and appealing gentlemen, joined by junior senators such as New Jersey's Bill Bradley, representatives like Colorado's Timothy Wirth and Missouri's Richard Gephardt, and heavy weights from academe and high finance--MIT economist Lester Thurow and New York investment banker...
...permits to remember their former plight as rent-control tenants. "Your financial situation has changed," Wylie told the tenants, "but the members of this council pledged to preserve rent control cannot change even if it is only two weeks before the election." Mary Allen Wilkes is the chief standard-bearer of the condo forces...
...politicians dishonest? Not me, city council candidate Brian Feigenbaum has told Cambridge voters in recent weeks. In fact, sincerity is such a theme of Feigenbaum's campaign that he's running as the standard-bearer for a new coalition--the "Honesty Party...