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...added that the difficulty of the required written language exam might also contribute to a student's hesitation to concentrate in Literature...
This year, the Sprints will be held on the Thames in New London on May 23, a Sunday in the middle of exam period. The Administrative Board has to grant teams permission to go on the road during exams--and usually, it does. Last year, for instance, the Harvard baseball team went to the NCAA regional playoffs at West Point, even though some team members stayed in Cambridge to take tests...
...failed his first bar exam. When he walks into the courtroom, he sports snakeskin cowboy boots, a knee-length beaver coat and a ten-gallon Stetson. His outside interests have included selling bull semen. During one trial, he kept an intriguing box on the table in front of him. The contents: the embalmed leg his plaintiff had lost in the accident at issue. He won some $300,000 in damages...
...argument and had to concede that his answer was at least as good as their own, perhaps better. As a result, the testing service raised Dan's score, as well as the scores of 250,000 other students who picked the same answer in the multiple-choice exam, though probably for the wrong reason...
More than half the population over age ten gulps down coffee at an average rate of two cups a day. To coffee lovers the black brew is an elixir that soothes frazzled nerves, gives the mind a lift at exam time, spells drop-in hospitality to the housewife. Yet in recent years coffee has been tentatively tied to various afflictions, including diabetes, heart attack, and cancer of the colon, urinary tract and stomach. Last week Harvard University researchers announced a statistical link between coffee and cancer of the pancreas. The pancreas produces enzymes vital to digestion and the hormone insulin...