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...believe in me," Corgan sings, as if pleading for listeners to trust in his band's huge undertaking. Many of the songs here--such as Jellybelly, Here Is No Why and Muzzle--have an appealing, loose, raw edge. Others, like the nine-minute-long Porcelina of the Vast Oceans, flow gracefully and naturally along. One gets the feeling that the band--composed of leader Corgan, guitarist James Iha, bassist D'Arcy and drummer Jimmy Chamberlin--charged ahead on gut instincts; the sheer scope of the album (28 songs) didn't allow for second-guessing or contrivance...
...GROWING CHORUS OF AMERICANS will tell you these days that Washington is a cesspool of cronyism, funny cash flow and cover-ups. Judging from the small flood of incidents that came to light recently, they have a point. Even as Ross Perot is gearing up his third party, which he promises will make Beltway corruption a focus of collective rage, the capital was suffering a wealth of embarrassments last week. Says Charles Lewis, head of the watchdog Center for Public Integrity: "Every once in a while these seemingly bright Washington power people screw up, and we get a glimpse...
...contempt and cheerfully malign slyness are the driving forces of Hoeg's first novel, The History of Danish Dreams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 356 pages; $24), which has now been issued in the U.S. That said, there's not much similarity between the two novels. Smilla has a powerful narrative flow; Dreams is a lumpish absurdity that fuddles to a halt after several dozen pages, begins again with new characters and repeats this throat clearing until well past the book's midsection. In these first chapters Hoeg tries something like magic realism, then gives up a promising experiment...
...until they hit their target scores. Of course, this new service is accompanied by a "retention fee" for those who opt for anything but full disclosure. Along with the opportunities to receive rushed score reports, test-return, and to buy books with sample tests, all those companion industry dollars flow right into the College Board-ETS establishment. So were these recent changes in policy designed to provide colleges with better information about their applicants? Or is it about sucking more money out of high school students looking for the best possible numbers to put down on their transcripts...
...like to believe that neither ETS nor the College Board would let its educational scruples become hostage to concerns about the bottom line. And yet this recent test repetition incident makes it apparent that here, just as in another business, there is a trade-off between quality and cash-flow. The question becomes whether the trade-off results in anything less than fairness. Is the SAT the well-constructed, well-administered test that its marketers say it is, or is it just the best predictor of college success that can be afforded in a world of "prohibitive costs...