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During reading and exam periods The Crimson will publish only Monday, Wednesday and Friday except for January 18 which is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Crimson editors have exams...
...false-positive result -- a mistaken diagnosis of a tumor -- and the anxiety, expense and pain associated with a biopsy. A graver problem is the risk of a false negative: about 20% of the time the X rays fail to detect cancers, which may be picked up by physical exam. "Is mammography worth it?" asks Eddy. Some women, he notes, upon hearing that ten years of screening will save 22 lives "will say, '22 out of 10,000, well, that'll be me.' Others will say, 'Take half a day off work for a 22-out-of-10,000 chance...
When Morgan Lamb took the California bar exam for the second time in July 1985, he finished third in a field of 7,668. Pretty impressive for someone who had failed the bar just a few months earlier, scoring among the bottom 20% of those tested...
...fact, the turnaround was too good to be true. Suspicious examiners had noticed that the "Morgan Lamb" taking the test was a pregnant woman, although she resembled a man in her exam ID photo. Nine months later, police arrested Lamb, who by that time was working at a prominent firm, and his wife, Laura Salant, a promising Securities and Exchange Commission lawyer. Police had found Salant's fingerprints on the exam booklets and discovered that she posed for the exam ID photo wearing men's clothing...
There were no grand themes, no cutting issues, no electric enthusiasm for any candidate save Jackson and his over-the-rainbow dreams. Rather than a Democratic referendum, the Super Tuesday primaries turned out to be little more than a multiple-choice exam in which voters chose their favorite 30- second TV spots. Both Dukakis and Gore invested heavily in negative ads to define themselves in opposition to the pseudo populism of Richard Gephardt. The get-Gephardt pincer attack worked: the Missouri Congressman carried only his home state and faded from contention. While Dukakis, Gore and Jackson all had ample reason...