Word: ideas
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Some students responded to the idea of the parade with cynicism...
More important, ETS has not-so-implicitly acknowledged that the tests are not measures of intrinsic ability and that test preparation guides do help to raise scores. Surely that goes against the idea of their exam. Just like any other exam in high school or college, some students can perform well without prior preparation; many others can succeed with studying. However, other exams are written to test knowledge of an area, so that studying for them provides some sort of education in itself. ETS has not claimed that studying for their exams does anything other than raise exam scores...
According to Eric Cho '98, co-director of KACC, the merge has been an idea long in coming, with the various Korean organizations expressing the desire for unification for years. In certain respects, the formation of KA is a return to the time a decade ago when there was only one Korean organization, Koreans of Harvard-Radcliffe, he said...
...Boulder, where police spend as much time seeking bicycle thieves as hunting for more hardened criminals. JonBenet's murder was the only one in 1996. But, say critics, Koby should have realized early that his troops were in need of outside help. Instead, he seemed to resent the idea that anyone outside Boulder should even take an interest in the case. In a January appearance on local TV, he scolded the rest of the country for "sick curiosity." Since then he has had almost nothing to say publicly. Last week he agreed to an interview with TIME, but then abruptly...
Even some of those who volunteered seem to be having second thoughts. "When I registered, it was more of an idea," says Dr. Bernard Hirschel of Geneva, Switzerland, who had not discussed his decision with his wife and children. "[The organizers] did not even talk about a vaccine that was ready for testing." Perhaps not. But by putting their bodies on the line, Hirschel and the growing ranks of other volunteers may have brought Desrosiers' unfinished vaccine one step closer...