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...economic bias in the tests. The Nairn-Nader study says ETS statistics show SATs are not a very accurate predictor of a student's first year grades. "Ninety per cent of the time, tests predict a student's first year grades no more accurately than a roll of dice," Massade says. Although Mary Churchill, associate director of the Information Division of ETS, agrees that high school grades are statistically a better indicator of a student's performance, she believes that Nairn misinterpreted ETS findings and that SATs are a better predictor than the Nader group says...
...this time, in the Court of King Joseph, the Knights of the Varsity Table had been sporting in various and sundry ways. They amused themselves with games of backgammon and dice, and partook of prodigious feats and shared great pleasures with the maidens, though we cannot speak here of the nature of those pleasures, except to say they were the most enjoyable delights imaginable...
...Wells' reaction to the marvels of modern technology--planes, cars, and see-through jeans. But the well-constructed script doesn't overdo his future shock: after several funny incidents, Meyer shifts into the love story. From there, tension builds up again, as the Ripper resumes his old slice-and-dice tricks, but the laughs periodically resurface as Wells does battle with telephones and electric toothbrushes...
...explanations in Welles' orotund delivery become bemusingly classical: "The biggest dice game in history was for some very high stakes indeed. Zeus, Poseidon and Hades rolled for the universe. Poseidon won the oceans, Hades the underworld and Zeus the heavens. It is thought that Zeus owned the dice...
Wolfe is certainly a man who would rather lead than follow. The Right Stuff grew out of his "curiosity about what made men shoot dice with death." What he discovered in thousands of miles and more than 100 interviews was that pilots lived "in a world where there are no honorable alternatives." Wolfe has already done all the research on Gemini, Apollo and Skylab, and plans to write about them as well. Why did the current book take six years? "It was a structural problem," he says. "There are no surprises in the plot and a great many characters...