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...drop the SAT, by what means should we allot membership in the nation's ?lite? Of course, plenty of people make movies and play in the major leagues and run companies and write for magazines without high SATs. But good scores sure don't hurt. Besides, don't they measure something valuable - something beyond the diligence it takes to memorize the details of the Franco-Prussian War for a history exam? Much of the debate over the SAT boils down to this: Assuming we can measure innate intelligence, do we want a society that rewards genes? Are we afraid...
...tune of "Everybody Dance Now," Albert H. Cho '02 and Jessica A. Fragola '04 stripped down to their underwear--in protest Harvard's membership in the Fair Labor Association (FLA), a consortium founded by manufacturing companies such as Nike to monitor working conditions in foreign factories...
...Some for the "poor and disadvantaged," and that was where Philadelphia mayor John Street came in, sitting next to the First Lady by virtue of his love of faith-based initiatives and his membership in the Democratic party. Bush even set aside a whole $700 million - over 10 years - for something new called the "Federal Compassion Capital Fund." And to make sure the country could see his race-blind heart, Bush mentioned that just today he'd gotten John Ashcroft started on the problem of racial profiling...
...fact, McKean says, membership has almost doubled over the past semester...
...group considered itself the haut monde of child pornography, zapping reams of the stuff to each other via their own private chat room. To join the highly secretive "Wonderland" club, each member had to cough up steep membership dues: 10,000 sexually explicit images of kids. Once inside, at the bottom of seven layers of electronic security, they had access to 750,000. There are pictures of a fair-haired toddler, still in diapers, being sexually abused; of young girls and boys, even babies as young as three months, being raped, genitally and anally; of children performing sex acts...