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...alleged al-Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush, faces another tough challenge: the puzzling vagaries of post-9/11 U.S. justice. The son of Jordanian immigrants from Falls Church, Va., Abu Ali was arrested in a security sweep on June 9, 2003, while taking an exam at the Islamic University of Medina. He then languished for months in a Saudi jail. He was interrogated and, his family claims, tortured. All the while, U.S. and Saudi investigators played a game of hot potato, each country hoping the other would charge Abu Ali with a crime...
Harvard senior Ryan Fitzpatrick added his name to yet another elite list yesterday, becoming only the second player in the history of the NFL combine to earn a perfect score on the Wonderlic Personnel Test, a 50-question, 12-minute intelligence exam administered to all participating draft hopefuls...
...alone on Dec. 18, a Saturday during exam week when half the others on her floor had taken off for winter break. Bass had just studied for six hours and was relaxing with a late afternoon shower...
...result of a renewed emphasis on applying pressure around the crease and working for second-chance goals, a habit Harvard moved away from in part due to the ease with which it was able to score 20 times against Princeton, Yale and Union after returning from its exam break...
...Their parents actually teach them to lie to dodge their responsibilities." Didn't get your homework done? That's O.K. Mom will take the fall. Late for class? Blame it on Dad. Parents have sued schools that expelled kids for cheating, on the grounds that teachers had left the exams out on a desk and made them too easy to steal. "Cheating is rampant," says Steve Taylor, a history teacher at Beverly Hills High School in California. "If you're not cheating, then you're not trying. A C means you're a loser." Every principal can tell a story...