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Wishing to establish another branch in Cambridge, the Cambridgeport Savings Bank--based in Central Square--saw 1280 Mass. Ave. as "one of the best possible locations," said James B. Keegan '63, the bank's president...
...take E.T.S. tests." He contends that this ability can be cram-coached by methods having little to do with scholastic aptitude. As principal evidence, he offers the work of Testing Coach John Katzman, 25, whose four-year-old Princeton Review tutoring service has headquarters in New York City and branch offices in four other cities. Owen recounts that the Princeton Review and a few similar services, working from computer analysis of existing SATs, can boost students' SAT scores an average of 185 points (a perfect SAT mark is 1600; the national norm is 897, or 471 on mathematics...
Northeastern, which offers a continuing education program popular among Cambridge police officers, has established a committee to investigate the program following the Globe-series, said John W. Jordan Jr., dean of the university's continuing education branch...
...legislative front, conser vatives had nibbled away at Duarte's power and authority. Lacking a legislative majority, the Christian Democrats were unable to prevent the opposition from blocking the reform of El Salvador's moribund justice system or from slashing the executive branch's operating budget. The strongwilled President did not help things by refusing to seek deals with the opposition when it might have advanced his political aims. Said a veteran opposition figure: "He doesn't look for cooperation...
Founder St. Teresa also aroused intense controversy in 16th century Spain when she organized a branch of Carmelites to return to the severe solitude and renunciation practiced by the early Christian hermits. For centuries thereafter, the order was among the strictest in the church. Nuns meditated and prayed on behalf of others and speech was restricted. Members lived entirely behind high walls and spoke to outsiders only through metal grates or other barriers...