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...said, "Bad idea. You have not scored on your aptitude test to be an engineer. You're not inclined to be an engineer. You're not made up to be an engineer." Then I went to my math teacher, and she said the same thing, "Bad idea. You'll flunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bad Idea. You'll Flunk Out | 2/27/2005 | See Source »

...local nursery schools, and the difficulty of sticking to an exercise routine." For fun, she fantasizes about the host of Blue's Clues. Ouch. Todd, the iceberg to Sarah's Titanic, is a genial and hunky ex-jock who spends his days wrangling his toddler and dazedly preparing to flunk the bar exam for the third time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Way We Live Now | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

...Times, as at Harvard, it is hard to get in and almost impossible to flunk out." HOWELL RAINES, former New York Times executive editor, writing in the Atlantic Monthly about the Times culture that he tried to change before the Jayson Blair scandal forced his resignation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Apr. 5, 2004 | 4/5/2004 | See Source »

PENALTIES: Flunk one test, and a player's out for four games; a second, and it's six games; a third means a year's suspension...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Chemical Edge: Who's Got It? | 3/15/2004 | See Source »

...whether we should be less accommodating to mental illnesses and allow students to flunk out instead of just hanging on, I should think you would want to consult legal counsel before heading in that direction, mental illnesses being something for which we are required by law to provide accommodations, under [the Americans with Disabilities Act],” Lewis wrote in an e-mail response to Ceder’s and Summers’ discussion...

Author: By Katharine A. Kaplan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Troubled Students Feel College Nudges Them Off Campus | 1/23/2004 | See Source »

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