Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finn objects, however, to emphasizing the SAT as a measure of how much students are learning in school. "It's only supposed to measure the kid's ability to do college-level work," he points out. "That has at least as much to do with the brains you were born with and the educational environment you get at home." Cautions Fred Jewett, acting dean of admissions at Harvard University: "It is too early to say that the battle has been...
...JUST CAN'T make pictures about spaceships, "says Norman Jewison, director of such films as The Cincinnati Kid, ... And Justice for All, In the Heat of the Night, and Fiddler on the Roof among others. "I'm not interested in them, I'm interested in people," he adds...
...vice-president of the thespian troop at Churchill High School, Copaken never even thought about auditioning for movies until she met C. Thomas Howell, a teenage idol from the movie "The Outsiders". As Copaken's sister points out, it was the realization that "he was a normal kid too" that made Debbie think about becoming an actress...
...Some kid pitcher from Evansville notched the victory, O'Neal I think. Tommy Brookens hit a solo shot, and Lance Parrish drove in two runs. Final: tigers 3-0 over the Brewers...
...Kid seemed wholly removed from Dallas and the Republicans, but he had Dallas' self-assurance: "I finish what nature starts." You want to know what the week was like? It was like Hank Slikker, the gentle fellow who drove me in from the airport and who talked with equal enthusiasm about his Bible college and about "opportunity" and "space to spare" in Dallas. Dallas did not seem as thoughtful as Hank, but it appeared to live somewhere between the church and the bank. Saturday afternoon I walked among the gray and silver office buildings downtown, each showing off another...