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Much of the most powerful work deals with war. There is a remarkable similarity in spirit between several of the poems collected here and the poems written by European poets during the First World War. "My Brother" is often reminiscent of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est:" "...the enemy have not left us any seedling on our lands/Other than the corpses of our dead." Another poem, "In the Valley of the Shadow of Death," evokes the horrors of war indirectly, suggesting that peace is too often taken for granted...
...spite of nagging questions about the reliability of ETS's three-figure quantifications of people's "aptitude," over-worked, understaffed admissions boards and personnel managers continue to rely upon test scores for an easy, quick, "objective" standard. In some parts of the country, state law now sets specific SAT and LSAT cut-off scores for admission to state universities. In the 1971 Federal court case of Baker et al. v. Columbus (Miss.) Municipal Separate School District et al., the court established that the Columbus school authorities' use of the National Teacher Exam (an ETS test) cut-off score...
...eyes, every man is officially the same, except of course when he is an official nothing is quite the same. Consider the case of U.S. v. Marvin Mandel et al., which a six-woman, six-man jury began hearing last week...
...Et-lanna: the othuh capital...
...Et-lanna Cos-tooshun: a newspaper in the othuh capital...