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Coburn pointed out that, in contrast to a traditional will, neither document is difficult to create...
...Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT), a standardized exam first published in 1971 that Lohman helped revise two years ago. The ITED is your basic achievement test: it assesses how well kids have learned such class exercises as setting up science experiments, reading social studies passages, and spelling. The CogAT, by contrast, is a test that measures verbal, quantitative and figural reasoning abilities, irrespective of any one curriculum. (In the quantitative section, for instance, a question asked students to figure out the next number in the following series: 2, 7, 11, 14, 16. You can get the answer without knowing much math...
...ambiguous message to our troops, and we must not send an uncertain message to our friends and enemies in Iraq." This will not help Gephardt in Iowa, but it was an act of courage--Lieberman has made a habit of such acts in this campaign--and a stark contrast to the position taken by both Kerry and Clark, the two alleged warriors in the Democratic field...
...post-war Iraq, by contrast, the U.S. has effectively neutralized the threat of further weapons proliferation and arsenal development. Saddam Hussein is hiding, and many of his cohorts are dead or captured. Guided by the Iraqi Reconstruction and Development Council, humanitarian organizations and Western governments are rebuilding infrastructure. The White House estimates that Iraqi oil wells will generate $20 billion in annual revenue within two years. Saddam won’t be around to expropriate the windfall...
Gross, who is presumably now working on projects more agreeable to his wife, looks back wryly on the film’s contrast with his own career. He is especially skeptical of one subplot where Clayburgh’s character is hesitant to take a “boring” administrative job that will cut short her own research...