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There is plenty of blame to go around on this issue. Bribing students is not the business of universities. SAT exams are admissions test, intended to help admissions officers at colleges and universities select an incoming class. Not only is Baylor subverting the intent of the SATs, but it is also setting a terrible example for its students. As an institution of higher education, Baylor should be committed to academic integrity. There is nothing admirable about this extraordinary case of grade grubbing...
...interactions. The visitors, who have come to Cambridge all the way from Japan, are not particularly interested in the ball game. Instead, they focus their attention on the student viewers. No, they are not psychologists studying sports fanatics. According to a network executive who wishes to remain anonymous, their intent is to capture exciting footage of intelligent student fans in the U.S., in order to show that “top notch smart people can be here” watching major league baseball. Unfortunately. the students are more interested in writing their Justice response papers than watching every pitch. After...
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...Think of it as an experiment,” Charania said. “Our intent is to see if great things happen. If the experiment proves to be very successful, then we want to see how much success we can create...
Resilience helps too; every President will get thrown back against a wall and need to come back stronger. Just ask Bill Clinton. So do steadfastness, persistence, conviction. But as soon as you make the list, it mocks you, for history is a dance of luck and intent, and sometimes they trip each other. Wilson was strong enough to win a war but too stubborn to save the peace. Herbert Hoover was "the Great Humanitarian" who saved Belgium from starvation; under the right circumstances, he could have been a great President. But his temperament undermined his talent; he never understood that...