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...going out of style ever since, but this is a slippery SAT II slope you’re skipping down. Know where it ends? Sex weeks, Richard Alpert, and lecturers who grade with “sad faces.” It’d be like the lower school at Milton Academy, or Brown. You’d be laughingstocks without your army of 1600-scoring—excuse me, 2400-scoring—cyborgs...
...assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth for four years and is currently helping more than 100 students with their applications, said the report would not change her counseling strategy, and that significant changes in admissions policy would be slow in coming. “Schools are reluctant to lower their SAT averages...
...presidential and vice-presidential debates approach, one of the more peculiar rituals of American politics has resurfaced: In a cynical attempt to lower public expectations for their candidates performance, the Republican and Democratic campaigns have begun to talk about what bad debaters their own candidates are. This stale tactic, which assumes that the American public is naively unaware of the oft-played expectation game, has been evident in both the McCain and Obama camps. But while these silly attempts to lower expectations may be meaningless, the debates themselves are not. In a political culture dominated by sound bytes and rhetoric...
...finding redemption after last year’s last-place finish. “This year we’ve come back with a new attitude,” captain Michael Shore said. “For the first time in a long time we have more upperclassmen than lower classmen. Our attitude in practice is better, we’re playing better golf, getting better scores, and expecting more out of ourselves.” In a deep field of 18 schools, Harvard finished ninth and Princeton, the only other Ivy League opponent in attendance at the fall invitational...
...heavy. As the events of the last week unfolded, ad hoc solutions from Bernanke’s Fed and the Treasury, led by the vigorous former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry M. “Hank” Paulson, proved unable to bring lasting calm to the market: Neither lower interest rates, nor greatly expanded liquidity helped thaw frozen credit markets. Even after brokered shotgun weddings like those of Merrill Lynch and Bank of America or Bear Stearns and JP Morgan Chase, what Professor Kenneth Rogoff once called the “flagship” American sector, the financial services industry...