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Robert Hughes' review of the Edouard Manet exhibit [ART, March 26] incorrectly stated that its curator is George "Maunet." The correct name is Mauner. Also, the caption for the painting Still Life with Salmon said it was from 1880; the correct date...
...widest possible audience. During the early days of the most recent wave of Palestinian violence, for example, newspapers across the world, including The New York Times and the Boston Globe, published a photograph of a bloodied man crouching before a baton-wielding Israeli policeman, beneath which the following caption appeared: "An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount." In fact, it was later revealed that the "Palestinian" was actually an American Jewish student, Tuvia Grossman, who had been visiting the Old City with friends when their cab was stopped by a Palestinian mob, and the boys were dragged...
...infrared unit. She's also bought a personal fm unit for lectures: the speaker wears a small microphone, which transmits via radio waves to a receiver connected to a loop Bernstein wears around her neck, which sends the signal to the telecoils in her hearing aids. She uses a caption decoder on her television, attends captioned theater performances and asks people to e-mail her messages rather than leave them on her telephone answering machine. Perhaps the most difficult listening environment is a noisy party or restaurant gathering, where many people are talking at once and the clatter of dishes...
Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment. The test, which will be given to 1,400 students this spring, is being paid for by the College Board, the people behind the SAT. Even they realize, it seems, that some folks...
...Research on another alternative exam, this one written by Robert Sternberg, a psychologist at Yale University, asks students to perform tasks reflecting their creativity and practicality. In one section, students write the caption for a cartoon or design the logo for a company. In another, they are asked how they would handle requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment...