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...lesson of 1969 is that, while neither style of activism is demonstrably superior, both require mass participation--a key criterion by which much of today's activism falls short--regardless of the tactics. Although the radical ideology and tactics of the '69 strikers may well have alienated the administration and fueled reaction, the very vehemence of the '69 protests got results...
Harvard gives the SAT less consideration in the admissions process, so an SAT score raised by a prep course would probably not translate into admission. But for many schools, the SAT score is the dominant criterion for admission, and the specter of buying admission through a prep course becomes a real concern...
...leading academic institution, Harvard should act immediately to change this harmful public perception. If Harvard stopped using the SAT as a criterion for admission, other institutions would follow and the mania so prevalent among high school students would ease...
While the opening atmospherics were promising, the devil, as arms controllers say, is in the details. The Soviets scored early with ambitious unilateral initiatives that went a long way toward meeting the basic Western criterion of trimming the Warsaw Pact's alarming and unmatched capacity to overrun Europe. Beyond that, the East bloc is prepared for a fundamental restructuring of the Continent's military balance that could sharply diminish the dangerous confrontation across Europe's political fault line...
...Criterion Collection, from the Voyager Co. in Santa Monica, Calif., turns out the most formidable disc library. Its version of Orson Welles' masterpiece The Magnificent Ambersons contains, among other items, the entire shooting script, a full set of storyboards, and stills of crucial scenes deleted by the studio. The Criterion edition of Blade Runner has a lavish set of designs by "visual futurist" Syd Mead; the disc of 2001 was personally . overseen by Stanley Kubrick and includes almost a thousand pages of essays and production memos. "We're a significant part of an as yet insignificant business," says Voyager...