Word: journals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appears that the change in the LSATs does not necessarily allow the more able potential lawyers to excel, but rather merely extends the advantage enjoyed by those more proficient at math and at test-taking. Peter Liacouras, dean of Temple University's law school, told a Wall Street Journal reporter in February that the LSATs, even before the changes, failed to measure "common sense, motivation, judgement, idealism, client-handling ability, oral skills and leadership," among other skills...
...tension also brought, as early as September 1967, a quieter, more insidious backlash, documented in Samuel Chavkin's recently-released book, The Mind Stealers. That month, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, three Harvard Medical School professors argued that too much attention was being given to easily defined reasons for violence in the inner cities--reasons like poverty and prejudice. The physicians argued that someone should investigate, too, the likely possibility that the rioters themselves were somehow defective, that there were defects in their mental wiring. Dr. Vernon H. Mark, now associate professor of Surgery, Dr. Frank...
...recent article in the Wall Street Journal, portraying the new journal as extremely well-funded, "grossly exaggerated the situation," according to Genovese. "We're solvent right now but need another 50,000 bucks by Christmas," Genovese said...
...journal will attempt to avoid the type of polemics common to other Marxist journals, Womack said...
Genovese, author of "The World the Slaveholders Made," believes that the new journal will allow him to disseminate Marxist ideas to a wider audience than he reached with his books. "Not everyone is interested in slaves and a lot of people will read the journal who didn't read my books," Genovese said...