Word: grading
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Bynum's dreamy, experimental debut, Madeleine Is Sleeping, earned a 2004 National Book Award nomination. In her second book, her prose tacks traditional but sacrifices none of its lilting charm. Ms. Hempel is a seventh-grade English teacher besotted by her students but ambivalent about her profession; Bynum's portrayal makes this humanist appealingly human. It's a pleasure to be in her class...
...Pasquale actually seems to develop an interesting rapport with himself, alternately expressing admiration, consternation, and even surprise at his own answers. The interview is prefaced by an introduction to our hero written by (drumroll, please) Matt di Pasquale, which tells us that Matt had “virtually flawless grades and SAT scores” and “scored fives on ten Advanced Placement Exams,” among other things. Harvard has seen its fair share of new and sensational publications, from the ill-fated Scene to the pseudo-erotic H-Bomb, but never anything quite like this...
...example, I met one Srebrenica victim who seemed almost staid about her traumas, as if the loss of her husbands and sons was just a bad memory, like a bad grade on a test. This woman could not speak English, and of course I did not speak BCS (Bosnian, Croat, Serbian), so we greeted each other with “As-Salamu Alaykum” (Peace be upon you). She pointed to her T-shirt, which indicated that she was in the “Mothers of Srebrenica” group, and when I looked at her again I could...
...badly trailed in this group--a warning sign, since George W. Bush won among white women in 2004. But a new CNN/TIME/Opinion Research poll reveals McCain has opened up double-digit leads among this group in the swing states of Virginia, Missouri and Michigan. Charollet Schworer, a retired third-grade teacher from Kentucky who voted twice for Bill Clinton, traveled to Lebanon, Ohio, in a Windbreaker patterned with the American flag. "I sat there, tears rolling down my face, watching my TV," she says of Palin's speech at the Republican Convention. "I felt energized, truly energized for the first...
Quality control is its biggest challenge. On occasion, either the millers fail to produce the contracted grade of flour or some of the factories fail to pay IRD its share of profits. IRD tests batches each month and refuses anything that does not pass muster. If factories fail to pay on time, IRD sends bill collectors after them and threatens not to renew their contracts. "We put the fear of the Lord in them," say Peggy Sheehan, adviser to IRD president Keys. The USDA also sent inspectors to Indonesia to make sure its donations were being used as intended...