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Sure, I wish the math team the best of luck. And I'll believe the staff cares about its success when I see them dress up like bunnies to taunt opposing integrators...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Forget Chess, I Want My Hockey | 4/11/1990 | See Source »

Cara A. Dunne '92 and Soonkyu "S.K." Shin '91 both say they have had bad experiences with math exams at Harvard...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Question of Responsibility for the Blind | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Fortunately, some common sense and simple math can produce rough answers. People buy a book for many reasons: either they want to read it, think they ought to read it, or want to impress people by making them think they have read it. But it is a truth universally acknowledged that folks are motivated by desire and ease, rather than self-improvement or showiness, when it comes to the private act of actually turning the pages. Hence, a formula that indicates what percentage of books sold are really read. The Fully Read Index , (FRI) equals the Author Comfort Index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No, But I Bought the Book | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

...have one final option for revenge--I can drag out the QRR process until the last possible moment. I can continue to harrass the data officials with my pathetic math knowledge and make them want to pass me even if I can't add simple numbers. I can fail on principle...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: Quite Ridiculous Requirement | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...downright mortal, sending shocks around the world. And America's new goals for education by the year 2000, which the nation's Governors unveiled last week, aim in exactly the right competitive direction. The goals may seem fanciful -- one is to make American kids first in the world in math and science -- but are they that much more fanciful than the goal of an earlier era: to land a man on the moon within ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money Angles: The Future You Save May Be Your Own | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

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