Word: gaston
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...realizes he's got to do things to make himself accessible. He's a smart guy. Getting the media is a critical part of making people more aware of him as a person. Forget the people who aren't tennis fans. A lot of people wouldn't know Gaston Gaudio if they fell over...
...months ago, TIME asked the College Board if we could sort out some of these conundrums by following the development of the New SAT from inside. To our surprise, board president Gaston Caperton III agreed. Renouncing his predecessors' often combative p.r. approach, Caperton allowed me to attend a series of meetings at which New SAT items were previewed and debated. An experienced politician--he was elected Governor of West Virginia in 1988 and '92--Caperton knows the old adage about making laws and sausage. Designing tests is also a messy process, and he deserves credit for laying it bare...
...some ways, Gaston Caperton has an excruciating job these days: he must sell the New SAT even as he defends the current test against its critics. He cannot say the College Board was wrong about the SAT all these years; nor can he say the board was wholly right about it. That's why he argues, on the blade of a knife, that the SAT is not becoming a typical achievement test but that it is coming "into a great balance" between a test of "critical reading, comprehensive writing and higher mathematics" and a test of "learned skills that...
Last month, the HFA hosted Burkina Faso director Gaston Kaboré as its sixth Genevieve MacMillan and Reba Stewart Fellowship for Distinguished Filmaking recipient. The award honors francophone African directors and was established by the eponymous Cambridge residents...
...could have become the hero of the floods." VIT KAHLE, Prague Zoo spokesman, lamenting the death by exhaustion of Gaston, a seal who escaped his enclosure as flood waters rose and swam 300 km before expiring...