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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...math advisor to Education Secretary Riley, Linda P. Rosen, said Riley has no plans to withdraw the panel's report...

Author: By Daniel P. Mosteller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Professors Criticize New Math Curricula Report | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...scores--566 verbal and 640 math--were certainly good enough to merit admission to Yale even without his father's weight behind him, Chauncey says...

Author: By James Y. Stern, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bush Spent Undergrad Years Away From Politics | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

Alejandro Jenkins '01 is a math and physics concentrator in Currier House. His column appears on alternate Wednesdays...

Author: By Alejandro Jenkins, | Title: The Queen In Parliament | 11/17/1999 | See Source »

...suggested--that he had been a mediocre, C-average student. The surprise was that Bush's SAT scores, while not topping the charts, were better than his grades. (Out of a possible top score of 800, Bush got 566 on the verbal part of the test, 640 on the math.) It turns out Bush was an underachiever. He didn't do well in class not because he couldn't, but because he couldn't be bothered. The fear that continues to fester about Bush--as we read about his periodic foreign-policy gaffes and then hear him blithely assert that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign 2000: Why Bush Doesn't Like Homework | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

...better. A Canadian university degree is welcome at such top U.S. graduate schools as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Chicago and M.I.T. Major U.S. corporations such as IBM, Ford Motor and Arthur Andersen increasingly recruit at Canadian schools. Graduates of the University of Waterloo, with its world-class math and computer-science programs, are recruited by Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Film- production students at Concordia University in Montreal are often hired before graduation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Families: College Abroad | 11/15/1999 | See Source »

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