Word: globe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...truth what so disturbs Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz is that deep within the shrouded confines of the Fly Club, people are thinking thoughts of which Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz do not approve. People are expressing opinions which Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz do not like. The Boston Globe reports that Ms. Schkolnick's true purpose in suing the Fly Club is to destroy the "attitudes they [the final clubs] perpetuate..." She and Mr. Dershowitz feel that the clubs create an atmosphere which breeds discriminatory instincts, that these instincts are harmful to society, and that, in the name...
...Globe article, Ms. Schkolnick states that she is out to change Harvard traditions left over from the "bad old days." What she and Mr. Dershowitz do not realize is that they themselves personify a "bad old" tradition which predates Harvard by several millenia: the misguided zealot. Waving the banner of liberalism, Ms. Schkolnick and Mr. Dershowitz want the state to stamp out ideas which differ from their own. Raising the cry of liberty, they want the state to suppress private activities which might result in opinions they dislike. To achieve their ends, they are drawing upon a more recent tradition...
...Hunt for Red October, Brinkley's tale has humanity, thoughtfulness and one inspired complication: women. On the Nathan James, not surprisingly nowadays in this man's Navy, 32 crew members are female. Sexual tension and just plain tension mount as the ship, food and fuel dwindling, scours the globe for a habitable place to settle down and, if the women are willing, raise some families...
...major point I made to Mr. Greene was that the Globe's headline (Harvard Study Finds Aptitude Test Coaching a Waste of Time) was contradicted by the experience of the minority of Harvard frosh who took coaching. I added that I was delighted to learn that, while this whole group had raised their scores enough to meet Harvard's stringent standards, the students who had taken Kaplan programs showed the greatest point increases of all. (For the purposes of the survey, coached students were divided into four groups: those taking Kaplan, those taking Princeton Review, those attending other commercial courses...
...fact, I think the debate and further studies the Whitla report should spark will promote a long overdue investigation of the advantages of test preparation. I look forward to seeing the actual survey when it is released next month and to clarification on some of its findings. (The Globe article, for example, notes that the study's respondents included 69 percent who did not take coaching and 14 percent who did. This leaves a healthy 17 percent of the paticipants unaccounted...