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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...enrollment at Lawrence University, already made standardized tests optional at his institution several years ago. He was quoted in The New York Times concerning the SAT and the ACT, “We’re all just making assumptions about these tests. We’ve all grown up with it. It’s embedded in the culture. If you really ask around the country, how many admissions officers can tell you at their institution what the predictive validity of the test is? What does it add to our understanding? What do tests help you predict? You?...
...between comedy and tragedy--Ayckbourn's greatest feat, really--may be why his work has got short shrift in America. Early in his career, after such West End (and occasional Broadway) successes as Absurd Person Singular, Ayckbourn was labeled, patronizingly, the "British Neil Simon." But as his plays have grown darker and more complex, Broadway has largely abandoned him. Although Communicating Doors, one of his lesser comedies, had a successful run off-Broadway a couple of seasons back and Comic Potential, his latest West End hit, will be produced this fall by the Manhattan Theatre Club, most of Ayckbourn...
...What is that your business? What has the universe got to do with it? You’re here in Brooklyn! Brooklyn is not expanding!” The exchange is a comically morose take on the idea that genius is childhood recaptured at will; for Woody Allen, grown-up gloom is simply the mature form of a congenital quirk: existential thinking...
Republican establishment. “Republicans are going to be charged for this happening on their watch,” Castellanos said. Castellanos said that, in recent years, he has observed an increasingly “incestuous” relationship between journalists and politicians. The two groups have grown “co-dependent” due to the public’s constant demand for information, he added. “People are more informed than ever,” Castellanos said. “The role of gatekeeper of information has changed.” Castellanos emphasized...
...national issue, so bringing in advisers from outside of Alaska is only appropriate. But the campaign's public bashing of Monegan, a widely respected, longtime public official in the state, didn't help its case. Now that O'Callaghan's hardball tactics are becoming clearer, the complaints have grown louder, from all sides of the political spectrum...