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...days: he must sell the New SAT even as he defends the current test against its critics. He cannot say the College Board was wrong about the SAT all these years; nor can he say the board was wholly right about it. That's why he argues, on the blade of a knife, that the SAT is not becoming a typical achievement test but that it is coming "into a great balance" between a test of "critical reading, comprehensive writing and higher mathematics" and a test of "learned skills that you use to reason...
Five villagers agreed to do the job. Using a tangan, a crude shovel with a specially curved blade and an extra-long handle, they probed deep into the earth around the mound, extracting core samples and examining the dirt for indicators such as traces of charcoal, which the ancients packed around tombs to ward off humidity. Locating a likely spot, the villagers lighted the fuse on a 110-lb. lump of homemade dynamite and blew a hole in the middle of a wheat field. Having blasted their way to a spot near the top of the tomb, they donned...
TANGAN This special shovel, which has a curved blade and steel screw-on handle extensions, can extract soil samples from 115 ft. below the earth's surface...
Opulent, colorful, polished, Dunster’s production of Lenny enmeshes us in the jokes, the faces, the accents. As much as it is a projection of Lenny Bruce’s mind, the show is a reflection of the world that crushed him. At the end, the hard blade gleams like the point of one of Bruce’s jokes...
...posters she loved and the photographs of my family everywhere are enough to break anyone. But there’s no time for this. Within hours I’m watching my mother stand with the other immediate bereaved, enacting the custom of having their shirts cut with a blade...