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They simply recognized that the Knapp-Greenbaum index did not distinguish between the effects of the college and the quality of the students who came to the college; and so, confident that the qualities of a college could be separated from the quality of the student body, an NMSC worthy named Thistlethwaite devised the Talent Supply Index, which measures the calibre of students--a college's TSI is the average freshman's score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test...
...Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels.† Ironically, 17 passengers had transferred to American One at the last moment, when a United Air Lines flight was canceled. So shattered were the bodies that Chief Medical Examiner Milton Helpern ruled out visual identification by relatives as "inhumane," set out to distinguish them by fingerprints and other means...
There was a time when it looked like criticism was done for in this country. Now, thanks to the Administration's wonderful technique of assimilating its potential and real critics, opposition is merely impossible to distinguish...
...practical in such portions that even in an historical perspective it may be impossible to say whether they succeeded or failed. Yet it is a fact of politics that individual hopes ride on expedient fusions like this peace march; one must delve into its complex purposes and distinguish the dominant from the variant and the deviant in order to say yea or nay with more than prejudice...
...Academe has reared music in America, it nurtured the performer, the listener and the musicologist quite apart from each other. Yet now the boundaries are growing fuzzy: Harvard, whose music department has emphasized musical scholarship, draws many quite talented performers, and one can hardly distinguish the future professional from the amateur. But a nervous touchiness of the performer towards the musicologist raises the question of just what place performance holds in a scholarly institution...