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...efforts to mitigate Proposition 209's impact may soon go even further. The state university system grabbed headlines recently by floating the idea of scrapping the SAT. But there is now a quieter proposal before the university's academic senate to take fewer students based solely on academic criteria such as grades and standardized tests (now 50% to 75% of the total) and more on a "holistic" assessment. The initiative's backers say the looser rules could help increase enrollment of underrepresented minorities who, as a group, fare less well on exams like the SAT. (U.C. officials deny that...
...York bearing placards proclaiming that "Zionism equals Anti-Semitism," or Mary Robinson, the U.N.'s Irish Catholic human rights commissioner proclaiming that when she sees vicious anti-Semitic slurs, "I am a Jew." (Sorry, Mary. It's not like being a "Berliner" - the rabbis are pretty protective over their criteria.) Outside, meanwhile, a group of pro- and anti-Israel activists trade '60s peace-and-love anthems: "Give Peace a Chance," sing the Zionists; "We Shall Overcome," counter the Palestinians...
...poor housekeeping habits, exhortation alone probably won't get her to improve. But money might motivate her. Jordan recommends giving teens a modest budget for their bedrooms, with the stipulations that they can't do anything permanent or destructive. (You decide whether painting the room black meets those criteria.) If that doesn't work, author Faull advises, back off. "There is so much for teens to rebel about--their bedroom is not a battle you want to be engaged in," says Faull, who has two adult children living on their own and a teenage boy at home. When she goes...
...told me in an interview that his definition of “pretty” was largely based upon an appealing texture, something very smooth. I thought of the zit on my forehead and realized how ugly I would be to him, and justly so on his criteria...
Things looked no better in Brussels. Since 1990 the European Commission, the executive arm of the 15-nation European Union, has exercised jurisdiction over all mergers between firms with combined revenues of $4.2 billion, of which $212 million must be within Europe. The GE-Honeywell deal easily met the criteria. When U.S. lawmakers ask what business it is of the Europeans if two U.S. companies want to merge, part of the answer is that GE alone employs 85,000 people in Europe and collected $25 billion in revenue there last year...