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Kovach, who is also the ombudsperson for Brill's Content magazine, plans to spend more time with his family--his wife Lynne, his four children, and his six grandchildren--and to dedicate time to writing. He is in the process of co-authoring a book with Tom Rosenstiel that bears the working title, The Elements of Journalism...
Last January, Tomba snowplowed into Head TF Kictoria Vennedy and Agee Professor of Social Ethics Cobert Roles '50 about teaching in the course. They were both impressed by his knowledge of the books and of the English language, and they chairlifted him into a position as head TF. In an effort to help students identify with this Olympian Casanova, Prof. Roles has introduced a new book to the reading list, Chiunque pue essere uno Skier esperto (Anyone Can Be an Expert Skier...
...ticket to or barrier from a better life. But while Nairn's scores helped grant him a ticket rather than a barrier and he enrolled in Princeton the next year, he was severely troubled by what Nicholas B. Lemann '76, a former Crimson president, refers to in his new book, The Big Test, as the creepy "culture of obsession" surrounding the SAT. In 1999, I am sure that many of us have felt this same concern...
...refugees that came to America, and most of the scenes in the movie of cruelty and murder, even some of the conversations, did actually come from real life. Also, I got a lot of inspiration from news accounts of the conflict. The LA Times had day-by-day book on the war--their front page every day it went on, and some of the visuals come from that. Like they had a cow standing in the middle of a burning field, and a the Bart Simpson sticker on the hum-vee, those images are from the LA times...
...Test begins as a history of standardized testing and the SAT, but necessarily, it becomes a history of America's philosophy of education, exposing the direct and divisive conflict between our country's sacred values of opportunity and justice for all. A complex, interconnected web of personalities, Lemann's book follows the lives and accomplishments of a series of figures ranging from the early proponents of standardized testing to a few of the first women and minorities accepted into the educational elite on the basis of their performance on the exams...