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...memory. He says he favors achievement over aptitude tests partly because his university's research shows that the SAT II subject-based tests are just as good at predicting success at U.C. as the regular SAT. "When I saw that data," he says, "that was the nail in the coffin." But according to an exhaustive 2002 College Board study, the most accurate predictor of success in college--at U.C. and everywhere else--is a combination of high school grades, SAT scores and SAT II scores. The changes Atkinson has wrought may alter instruction at the "upscale private school" he talked...
...working on contract to develop products for the Body Shop, Constantine parted ways before the company got pounded in the U.S. by cut-rate copycats like Limited Brands' Bath & Body Works. In 2001, around the time Body Shop founder Anita Roddick described her creation as a "dysfunctional coffin," Lush's takeover bid was flatly rejected. But even with turnaround specialist Adrian Bellamy at the helm, Body Shop's comparable-store sales in the U.S. were still down 5% in 2003 from the previous year. Constantine, 52, says he has left the door open for future talks. "We hold the same...
...know that controversial things that I’ve dealt with, the state should consider. That was a nail in my coffin from the first day. But I’ve been able to do a tremendous amount of media, and been able to put all of these ideas out there and get the public thinking about them and politicians thinking about them. And that was always my goal...
Charnock was also brilliant against Maine last Wednesday, where he delivered one goal and one assist for the Crimson. Though his goal came with just over ten minutes remaining in a 3-0 Harvard victory, it put the final nail in the coffin...
...Alas, not much more than glue and stitching. Yellow Dog, sad to say, is a novelist's breakfast. Chapters on California's porn industry read as if Amis were recycling his 2001 Talk magazine article on that subject. A darkly hilarious story line about a corpse jostled from its coffin and wreaking havoc in the hold of a transatlantic jetliner deserves a novel of its own, but it doesn't belong in this one. Yet Amis' manic prose keeps Yellow Dog trotting along briskly. In Henry IX's office, "every plane had been harassed with ornament," and that describes Amis...