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...current version. As an eminently irksome stage of the graduate school application process, the GRE merits periodic scrutiny to ensure that the examination is in fact worthwhile and well-designed. But inherent problems are certain to remain. In particular, GRE writing section grades are notoriously correlated with essay length. The Princeton Review GRE preparation book admits this trend and even advises test-takers to strategize accordingly. This ill-conceived scoring method will be counterbalanced, however, by a new policy of sending, along with scores, the writing samples themselves to graduate school admissions committees, who can evaluate their quality more adeptly...
...congrats, you got to the bottom of this book-length e-mail! If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding punch, your feelings during punch, or anything at all, contact Mama G as a first line of defense. Also feel free to talk to seniors who have been through this once before and can help you keep your wits about you as you go into this stressful but (more importantly) fun and exciting process...
While Dumas spoke at length about being an Iranian at an inopportune time in America, the vast majority of her stories focused on her family...
...more risky (for workers) uninsured 401(k)s. In effect, employees took a hefty pay cut and barely seemed to notice. Lawmakers and supporters advocated the move by pointing to a changing economy in which employees switch jobs frequently. They maintained that because defined-benefit plans are based on length of service and an average of salaries over the last few years of work, they don't meet today's needs. But Congress could have revised the rules and made the plans portable over a working life, just like a 401(k), and retained the guarantee of a fixed retirement...
...garb imaginable, a talking Fulla doll might exclaim, as the Oct. 13 Salient’s parody advertisement imagined it, “I like shopping!” Yet, before going to the bazaar, perhaps Fulla, unlike Barbie, would have to seek out her misplaced abaya, the full-length garment that her culture and her religion require her to wear while outdoors.The Salient parody imagines a great deal. And so, when our imagined Fulla speaks, the greater subservience shown by Muslim wives to their husbands manifests itself in the acquiescent statement, “Yes, Husband...