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...Meadows says he can't remember exactly how he fared on the test, but he knows it wasn't a score that would vault him from a middle-class life in Santa Rosa, Calif., to Harvard. His mother, a nurse, had home-schooled him for several years, and his math skills were weak. He graduated from high school with a 3.6 GPA and went to tiny Pacific Union College. But he thought he needed a bigger name on his graduate-school applications; he applied to Bates because he knew it wouldn't ask for scores. Now a popular senior, Meadows...
Forger (an applied math concentrator) says the Organ Society--composed entirely of non-music majors--has been grappling with "image problems" that have kept listeners...
...three-point conversion, this is proof that Barry is a brave crusader for more money spent on education! He's not afraid to make himself look like an ass as long as he delivers the message that America can no longer let other countries' kids beat us in math any longer! And if they do, just shoot...
...Instead of arguing that he was insane, Kaczynski's lawyers seem to be planning a defense that he suffered from a mental defect that impaired his ability to form an intent to commit the crimes. Nevertheless, as far as his old neighbors seem to think, Ted Kaczynski, the former math professor, was gentle, soft-spoken and painfully shy. Last Friday Kaczynski's lawyers said he was refusing to submit to court-ordered psychiatric testing at the federal prison in Dublin, Calif., where he is awaiting trial...
That kind of math suggests that U.S. stocks deserve a trim in light of Asia's weakened economies. The big risk is that the selling gets overdone. Now that investors have seen a connection they were blind to a few months ago, they might panic, fearing the kind of rout in U.S. stocks that Asian markets experienced. There were moments last week when you could feel that sort of tension...