Word: exam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ANYTHING and everything you do-in the darkest of dorm rooms, in the drunkest of moments, in the most clueless of exam sessions--is on the record. That's what the coverage seemed to suggest...
...Corps residential training center, hoping to qualify for a clerical job. But Dorsey had hardly started classes when he was summoned to the program's medical office for an unpleasant surprise. He was informed that he had tested positive for AIDS antibodies during his required physical exam, then dropped from the program. "The world was pulled out from under me," recalls Dorsey, who has no symptoms of AIDS. Last month he filed suit in federal court in Washington demanding reinstatement...
...East Los Angeles into a worldwide symbol of educational hope. Its barrio-bound Hispanic students were inspired by Teacher Jaime Escalante to achieve startlingly high scores in that difficult subject calculus. But now the scores are falling. Only 46% of participating Garfield students passed a rigorous College Board math exam this year...
...most interesting thing about Dukakis in his student days is not that he excelled, but that he did so at a predetermined pace. His is not the brilliance that disdains looking at books until the final exam, and then crams. He does not move in spurts, or take things at a gulp. He learned his lessons every day, and left time for other things. He boasts that he never stayed up all night to study -- in fact that he never stayed up all night for anything. He early established the arc of his own effort, and maintains that trajectory despite...
...complete boredom. But he must have sensed that Harvard Law -- where he was already accepted -- would give him opportunities to participate in a larger world of politics, creating a momentum that would be even harder to break. Going to Korea was like going to bed early before a big exam. He already knew enough; he just had to save his energy...