Word: colins
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...said Colin Rizzio, the New Hampshire teenager who gained national notoriety last week for correctly observing that one of the October SAT math questions was flawed. The uncomfortable nudge Rizzio gave the Educational Testing Service serves as more than a minor corporate embarrassment...
...also testifies to the limitations and fallibilities of any system that purports to be an absolute test of ability. Colin Rizzio scored (before the mistake was discovered) a 750 on the math exam. Indubitably, a small number of students in the country did even better than that. Does the fact that they were better able to answer the formulated questions prove they are more intelligent? Or does the fact that Rizzio had the intellectual flexibility to understand not only how to find the answer to a question, but to intuit how it was designed to work, suggest something...
This week has already brought Colin Rizzio an acceptance from one college to which he had applied. Perhaps, while he is still in the mood for filling out applications, he should look into a position at ETS as well; as his discovery has demonstrated, even those who would evaluate intellect still have something to learn...
...Colin Chen '97, who sold back books for a historical-study Core class, said the low prices were better than nothing...
...year 1996 was mainly notable for what did not happen. At the beginning of the year the U.S. government did not happen. The Republican revolution did not happen. The Whitewater scandal did not bring the President down. Fifteen U.S. Senators did not run for re-election. Colin Powell did not run for the presidency. America did not get involved in a larger war in Bosnia and did not intervene in Burundi, Liberia, Zaire or Sudan. No fuss arose about the illegal fund-raising practices of the Democrats. No fury erupted when it was revealed that Swiss bankers kept Nazi loot...