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...nothing graduation test; the state now judges students on a portfolio of their work, including test scores, grades and letters of recommendation. Legislators in Massachusetts are considering a similar proposal. Florida has forsaken rote multiple-choice exams in favor of tests with longer essay questions and math problems requiring students to show their work...
...came a Harvard man--a math prof by trade--with a crew cut, a strangulated tenor and a way of forcing parables of antisocial behavior (e.g., incest) into jolly rhyme schemes ("I'd rather marry a duck-billed pledipus/ Than end up like old Oedipus/ Rex"). For a few years, on albums and in concerts, Lehrer was a comedy hero to the intelligentsia and other lonely people. He surfaced briefly to write songs for the TV shows That Was the Week That Was (no one, not even those who tried, can forget National Brotherhood Week) and The Electric Company (kids...
...mandarins know best what the masses should care about, and maybe page views are a populist corrective to that. But it was hard enough already for journalists--online, in print, on TV--to balance what people will reward with what, in our informed opinion, matters. With this irrefutable math, it may become impossible. "A lot of issues that are important in the long run are kind of wonky," says Salon's erstwhile media writer, Sean Elder. Subjects of limited appeal, like international news, may survive in niche publications, but what about general-interest ones like Salon (or TIME)? Ciao...
...logical relationship between those who commit capital crimes and those who end up facing death. Of the roughly 600,000 homicides committed in the U.S. since 1976, only 639 convicts have been executed. "It's become a lottery as to who gets killed," he says. "Do the math...
...trophy and a set of encyclopedias for which George clearly has no use. So why did he return for a third shot at the title? "It's not really the cash prizes and the trophies," George said. "It was really the words." Odds for the math Olympics are in his favor...