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...opinion pieces in question dealt with efforts to recruit women to HBS and the school's exam administration system...
...year was a descent into depression which concluded in a failed suicide attempt the night before his last final exam in June...
...poverty came at the state level, where some social-services departments began matching welfare recipients with participating churches. In Mississippi, Governor Kirk Fordice's Faith and Families program has paired 504 welfare families with 338 churches, which help them with everything from studying for the high school equivalency exam to honing job-interview skills. Michigan's welfare officials have hired two umbrella religious groups to work with more than 100 churches on a similar program. Welfare recipients aren't required to attend church, but the idea is that the church will provide a sense of community and a support network...
...McKeown and whole-math detractors like Lynne Cheney, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, darkly warn that President Clinton's voluntary national test for eighth-graders, set for 1999, is being used to promote a whole-math agenda. Says Cheney: "Every single member appointed to the math [exam's] panel is a whole-math advocate." Department of Education officials bristle at the charge, saying the exam will test both fundamental math skills and high-order problem solving...
...thing that's interesting about the summer, though, is that the moment in May when I leave my final final exam, this list of 'shows worth watching' seems to grow substantially. Which is to say that between June and September all this talk of efficient viewing, of television avoidance, has been known to go right out the window. Because while I can take or leave even the best television has to offer during the school year, while even my favorite shows are sacrificed tote rigors of my academic and extracurricular schedule, during the summer even reruns seem to take...