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This incident follows one last spring involving the Asian American Association (AAA) and the Korean Association. A Korean Association member objected to a drawing in AAA’s annually published Handbook to Asian America at Harvard and Beyond that depicted a Korean Association representative sporting spiky hair, sunglasses, a dark suit and smoking a cigarette. Drawings of other Asian American students were nondescript...
...editor of the Handbook subsequently wrote an apology...
Certainly the old suspicion of the academic credentials of home-schooled kids has waned; perhaps three-quarters of universities now have policies for dealing with home-schooled applicants, according to Cafi Cohen, author of The Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook. Today Harvard admissions officers attend home-schooling conferences looking for applicants, and Rice and Stanford admit home schoolers at rates equal to or higher than those for public schoolers. These schools compete for students like L.J. Decker, 17, from Katy, Texas, who scored 1560 on the SAT and was part of a team of home schoolers who won the Toshiba ExploraVision...
...White House, particularly on environmental issues, is operating under a corporate sponsorship. And some Republican poll-watchers think Bush?s only way to convince the public that his version of "balance" does more than pad Big Business? balance sheet is to borrow a page from Al Gore?s campaign handbook. "They haven?t given anyone a reason to believe Bush isn?t doing the bidding of corporate America, one GOP strategist told TIME last month. "They need a brawl...
...house is worth. He can also inspect detailed floor plans of your house, showing placement of your windows, porches and balconies. Supporters of the state's online initiative call it a breakthrough for open access to government records. Critics have another way of describing it: a breaking-and-entering handbook...