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Finally, we channel the spirit of Joe Bloggs--the fictional character created by The Princeton Review to teach high schoolers how not to take the SAT. An average student, Joe nails all the easy questions (except for the ones he makes careless mistakes on) and misses all the hard ones. Once students are armed with this knowledge, "What would Joe do?" becomes a question rivaling the familiar bumper sticker query in cosmic importance. On hard questions, you probe the answer choices for the likely Joe Bloggs answer--that is, the most appealing (read: wrong) answer. When you identify the answer...
...young woman who'd just been splashed playfully lifted her shirt and flashed the crowd. People in this city are too politically correct to say it outright, but many New Yorkers I interviewed for stories on the attacks implied it: This girl was to blame. In that brief, careless act--or so the train of thought goes--she single-handedly tipped the balance of the male spectators' conception of women...
...reasons that I got in that were omitted," Maya says, pointing out that the reporter didn't mention her perfect score on the Math IIC subject test, or her 780 on the writing test. "I'm not saying it was purposely done. It was just sorta a little bit careless, I think...
Unlike other wildfires--acts of God or of fickle thunderclaps or of anonymous careless cigarette smokers--the origins of this debacle are known. And the recriminations are starting. Roy Weaver, the Bandelier superintendent, was put on paid leave. He said he was not aware of the seven-hour-old National Weather report and had based his go-ahead for the burn on spot forecasts. The National Weather Service, however, insists it had faxed the report to Weaver's office. "This did not have to happen," says Senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico. "I believe, based on common sense, that somebody...
...Robert Frost wrote a poem called "Out, Out -" in which a boy using a buzz saw to cut stove wood is momentarily careless and cuts his own hand off, and then dies of shock. The others in the farmyard are stunned. But Frost ends with an interesting chill: "And they, since they/Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs...