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...last year during winter exam period Lana said, 'Todd, let's go to Cancun,'" recalls Todd J. Fletcher '91. "I said, 'No, we can't go to Cancun.' She convinced me to go, and two days later we were in Cancun...
...after Fletcher's first exam and before his last two, he says. But they swam and sunned, and returned relaxed and hearty to a campus of rheumatic test-takers...
...final day of exam period last month, happy-go-lucky North House resident Henry B. Wilson '91 and his girlfriend spontaneously decided to withdraw a few hundred dollars from the bank and set out on a trip to Florida...
...situation grew even murkier when the National Research Council reviewed the battery of general-aptitude tests in the wake of the Justice assault. It found the 12-part exam to be bias-free. But the council also found that low GATB scores tend to be less reliable predictors of job success or failure than high marks, a fact that works against blacks and Hispanics. The reviewers recommended some residual race norming while GATB is refined, a process expected to begin soon...
This is not an exam question in a college philosophy course but a moral conundrum at the core of perhaps the most intriguing case facing the U.S. Supreme Court, Payne v. Tennessee. Justice David Souter, the court's swing vote, asked during oral argument last month whether "it really is legitimate to value victims differently depending upon the circumstances of the lives that they have chosen to lead." Tennessee Attorney General Charles Burson's response was unequivocal: "There can be no doubt that the taking of the life of the President creates much more societal harm than the taking...