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Opponents of psychological screening say it is not only invasive, it's ineffective. "It just isn't the exact science people pretend that it is," says Lewis Maltby of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City. "We have some ability to identify people who are potential thieves by a written psychological test. If you were to test 100 potential employees, you could $ probably catch 8 of the 10 thieves. But the only way you could do it is by rejecting 50 of the 100 people. So to catch 8 guilty people, you're denying...
...tribute to Jane Smiley's absorbing, well-plotted novel that it never reads like a gloss on Shakespeare. For one thing, A Thousand Acres has an exact and exhilarating sense of place, a sheer Americanness that gives it its own soul and roots. More important, Ginny and Rose are not villains. Smiley has had Lear at the back of her mind since she first read the play. "I never bought the conventional interpretation that Goneril and Regan were completely evil," she says. "Unconsciously at first, I had reservations: this is not the whole story...
...committee plans to have reports ready three weeks after the group's next meeting. The exact meeting time has yet to be announced, but will likely be some-time next week...
Outside sources likewise could not place an exact overall value of a dorm. Dan M. Lipset '78, co-owner of Charles Associates Real Estate in Cambridge, said there are too many factors to consider, including house facilities and historic value. But he did take a stab at the cost of rebuilding the houses in today's market...
Morgan said he intentionally has not gone public with Jeffries's exact statements on that and other issues...