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...test's prominence ensures that shouting matches will erupt over it regularly. Usually one side says the SAT should die because it's racist; the other says it should flourish because it maintains standards. Their arguments are important but had started to seem pointless, since the number of SAT takers has increased virtually every year since Pearl Harbor...
...great service. Unlike other classes, one's grade in a Core tends to be somewhat beyond the student's control. Grade inflation merely ensures that the result, however arbitrary, is at least not catastrophic to one's GPA. I can only imagine the hue and cry that would erupt if the current Core program were not subject to grade inflation. Receiving an arbitrary grade somewhere between a "B-" and an "A," (which, according to Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield, is where 90 percent of Harvard grades lie) is a lot more palatable than receiving an arbitrary grade that...
Cynics would say that Kitano knows an audience will endure long minutes of artistic entropy as long as he delivers a few shootouts or explosions. The artillery scenes are like production numbers in old musicals. But he doesn't cue the killings or glamorize them. Things just erupt, blow up, like in real life. Like, his admirers would say, in real...
...months, border battles had broken out almost daily between troops of the two nations. The conflict that finally erupted last week along the 1,300-mile (2,100-km) frontier was plainly big enough to raise the specter of a major conflagration on the subcontinent. The presence of Indian troops on Pakistan's soil escalated the dispute to the point where full-scale war could erupt at any moment ... India's power is far superior to Pakistan ('s). Its forces (980,000) outnumber Pakistan's (392,000) by more than 2 to 1; its air and naval capacity is also...
...kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin's going to open up so many doors for you," High says. "You're going to be able to figure out the meaning of words you've never seen before...