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...practical-intelligence portions of the test (the part in which students persuade friends to haul the mattress), there were no differences in scores between groups. On the creative portions, the differences were considerably smaller than they are on the SAT. And in some sections, groups that traditionally fare poorly on standardized tests thrived. Native Americans did especially well on the oral part...
...finds a mysterious foreign love interest. Adapted for the screen by Audrey Well—who also produced and directed—from author Frances Mayes’ bestselling memoir, with a number of departures from the book. In the past, Wells has been responsible for such mixed fare as George of the Jungle, The Truth About Cats and Dogs and The Kid; here she strives to transcend the cliches of the typical romantic romp. An array of complications and subplots flesh out the simple story of one woman falling in love with a countryside estate, a beautiful landscape...
...most tear-jerking circumstances, songs and imagined interviews erupting within the text, and an extended mockery out of traditional book formatting, Genius is far from the average life story. It is also packed with generational allusions and an insistent profanity, distinguishing it from most book-of-the-month fare...
...Baltimore banker who was on his seventh Concorde flight and just wanted to get home faster than taking the traditional flight to New York. There was a corporate pilot who paid $ 9 for his ticket because his brother used frequent flier miles to pay the bulk of the fare. There was acrobatic flying champion David Martin and his wife who was probably secretly wishing they could get to the cockpit and try and roll the plane into a loop...
Chavez said that Harvard is “self-selectively more liberal because it is an institution of the Northeast,” where left-of-center candidates tend to fare better. But Glickman said that Harvard students’ opinions “would not deviate dramatically” from national norms...