Word: graded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of us would recognize this scenario as the typical horror movie, the kind of film we see with the eager anticipation that it will reduce us to a quivering, blathering mass. Jagged Edge, a self-proclaimed "psychological-mystery-thriller" is a departure from that grade B, blood-and-guts genre--and a welcome one at that. Granted, there are some scenes that could send even the most professional reviewer of movies under her seat, but the real core of Jagged Edge is the mind-tangling question of "who done...
What personal characteristics do you have that make you think you will be successful in your chosen field? What are your work habits? What is your grade point average (GPA), and does it accurately reflect your ability? Why do you want to make a career change at this point in your life? If you had to do it all over again would you earn a Ph.D...
...wide-ranging dilemma faces political leaders and parents of schoolchildren over whether youngsters with AIDS should be allowed to attend school if they are physically able to do so. New York City's decision to permit a single unidentified seven-year-old girl with AIDS to enter a second- grade class provoked an angry parental boycott in two Queens school districts, and a lawsuit has been filed seeking a reversal of school-board policy. In a bizarre twist to that case last week, the attorney representing the second- grader announced that there is evidence that the child does not have...
DIED. John Holt, 62, author and onetime fifth-grade teacher whose eloquent, anguished 1964 journal about his years in the classroom, How Children Fail, sparked a spirited national debate on the quality of the nation's schools, to which he continued to contribute with several other books, including How Children Learn (1967); of cancer; in Boston...
...first highlights were a living tableau of village handicrafts, combined with an exhibition of high-grade Indian painting and sculpture, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington and a fair on Washington's mall. By the end, the festival will have involved some 500 events in 90 cities in 36 states and ranged from displays of sculpture in Cleveland and calligraphy in Iowa City, Iowa, to a demonstration of ancient and modern Indian science in Charlotte, N.C. Some events touch directly on politics: California State University at Long Beach will hold a seminar on the centenary...