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...students flunk test." Confirming what we already knew, but were afraid to admit, a recent international study of high school seniors found the math and science skills of the U.S. students to be among the worst of the nations participating in the survey. The Financial Times adds insult to injury, noting (in their U.S. edition only) that "the US only scored higher than three nations--Lithuania, Cyprus and South Africa." These results offer us another opportunity to take a more serious look at President Clinton's plan for national standards in education...

Author: By Noah I. Dauber, | Title: A Failing Grade | 2/26/1998 | See Source »

...shadow of insult fell," said Du Bois in his essay, "A Negro Student At Harvard At The End of The Nineteenth Century," of being mistaken for a servant. Turned away from local barbershops, refused lodging by families who habitually hosted white students and excluded from various activities such as the Glee Club, Du Bois focussed on academic achievement while coping with the many facets of on campus racism...

Author: By Dafna V. Hochman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrating a History of Remarkable Scholars | 2/20/1998 | See Source »

...attention to all the other, harder-working and no doubt more productive interns whose hair is short and necklines are high? The feminist idea, as I understood it, was that we go to work to get a job done, and unless that job is lap dancing, it's an insult to be judged by one's body parts and willingness to share them with others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Week Feminists Got Laryngitis | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

Junior Erika Lundquist scored the first goal of the contest, followed by freshman Mairead McKendry. Lundquist snapped another biscuit in for the third tally and senior Sara Cable's netter in the third period was the Crimson's final insult against the Crusaders...

Author: By Chris W. Mcevoy, | Title: JV W. Hockey Wins First--Ever | 2/6/1998 | See Source »

...featuring a hucksterish emu rancher who promotes the ostrich-like bird as "the pork of the future." The ad never calls emu meat unsafe, but Fort Worth attorney John Scott says its portrayal of the birds as disreputable has dealt his clients a hard blow. In these litigious times, insult an ugly, flightless, 6-ft.-tall bird, and you may have to answer for yourself in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media: Trial of the Savory | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

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