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...diplomat. But few think tanks in Washington follow the E.U., few Americans have worked in Brussels, and when Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently delivered a major speech on transatlantic ties, he never uttered the words "European Union." That captures Washington's view that Europeans fuss too much over the fine points of their multilateral architecture and not enough over their military capabilities, still heavily dependent upon the U.S. for airlift, intelligence and modern equipment...
...believe it's all over," said Clemente. "I'm not worried about these guys [next year]. With [junior guard] Drew [Gellert] leading them on defense, they'll be fine...
...think the referees allowed the game to get away from them," Mazzoleni said. "But that's fine, because the calls were going both ways...
...raises the question of whether we should try to test intelligence at all. Lemann, who wrote the history of the SAT, answers no. "You want to measure people on something they've done, not on supposedly innate abilities," he says. "I don't trust the whole idea of innateness." Fine, but what about those cool kids who would rather write concertos or build rockets than cram for a quiz on Grover Cleveland's second term? What about the bright rural Arkansas kid whose school is so screwed up that her grades mean nothing? Lemann says those students could still submit...
...your boss asked you to find the volume of a cylinder? Most of the skills and knowledge we use in our jobs are very different from those that are tested by traditional college-entrance exams, and those of us who score poorly on those tests will probably do just fine in the work world. So Deborah Bial, a doctoral student in education at Harvard University, has developed a three-hour exam that uses group activities, personal interviews and even Lego blocks to identify kids with potential that might be missed by a test like the SAT. "Students who succeed...