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...began life as a tool of social change. The most significant early champion of the SAT was Harvard president James Conant, who, Lemann writes, disliked achievement tests because "they favored rich boys whose parents could buy them top-flight high-school instruction." Conant helped the SAT grow into the behemoth it is today precisely because it was different...
...mother were both forcibly recruited by the state to play an obscure sport known as team handball--Yi was discovered in 1999 on a playground in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen. Barely out of grade school, he was already 6 ft. 4 in. tall, a behemoth in a region known for its diminutive people. Yi's parents, however, were reluctant to let the Soviet-style sports school lay claim to their only son. "We had endured hardships ourselves," says Yi's mother, Mai Meiling, who like her husband works as a postal clerk. "We couldn't get good jobs when...
...Danger, Madam," intoned my driver soberly, but I couldn't help grinning. The elephant chased us, along with a sprawling convoy of cars and buses, back up the hill. Craning my neck to keep the behemoth in view for as long as possible, the last thing I saw before we rounded the corner to safety was an archetypal drama of David and Goliath. Like the famous lone protester of Tiananmen facing off a Chinese army tank, there stood one brave lunatic, arm outstretched and brandishing a rock as the elephant lumbered mightily towards him. As far as I know...
...also boasting a fresh superlative of my own: the world's sorest backside, thanks to four hours of bouncing about on the back of a behemoth in an uncushioned howdah...
Last November, activists from five Cambridge neighborhoods came together to air their gripes about the world-famous institution in their midst—an institution many at the meeting described as a land-hungry behemoth pursuing excessive building projects in each of the neighborhoods...