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TIME notched up a considerable plus mark with the article "Attack on the Navy" [May 8]. There were no distortions of facts or figures but, as a friendly foreigner, I suggest certain clarifications are needed...
Matthew, 5, is enrolled in the local Head Start program, where he receives free breakfasts and lunches. Mark, 14, is a problem. Last year, after a family fight, he ran away from home and spent a week in a halfway house-paid for by HEW'S Office of Children, Youth and Families...
American executives are becoming increasingly interested in things money cannot buy, notably a stable home life, a safe environment, a wholesome community, sun, fun and culture. For example, Mark Burns, 42, a fast-rising IBM executive in Chicago, turned down three transfers in order to raise his three children in one place. But Burns is aware that his refusals limited his possibilities at IBM, whose initials, many employees joke, stand for I've Been Moved. Hence, Burns came to the conclusion he must switch careers and now is president of a small bank on Chicago's South Side...
...Cliffs of Moher. Colman Brady, a Tipperary bridegroom, waiting for the dawn of his wedding day. wakes his brother and sister for a nocturnal trek. Their goal is "a rock shadow over the village, at once enchanting and threatening"-one of those mysterious neolithic monuments that mark the fringes of Western Europe, ancient altars still defying the new Christian God. Chilled, the two siblings retreat. Brady greets the sun alone with exhilarated hope. It is a false dawn. A chill grips Brady's life for four decades and 600 pages...
Savage is not alone in this point of view. As ETS continues to grow, and its "surplus funds" (it enjoys non-profit status) expand beyond the million-dollar mark, the legitimacy of standardized tests is being challenged from a variety of sources. The Bakke case raises serious questions about standardized tests--regarding the kind of information they reveal about a student and the possibility that the tests are culturally biased. The very existence of special admissions programs like the one at the University of California at Davis Medical School, from which Bakke was twice rejected, is based in part...