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...that the most vulnerable students would struggle on the new version. Instead, the very poorest children--those from families earning less than $20,000 a year--improved their SAT performance this year. It was a modest improvement (just 3 points) but significant, given the overall slump in scores. And noncitizen residents and refugees saw their scores rise an impressive 13 points. It was middle-class and rich kids who account for the much reported decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Did on the SAT | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

...Percentage of Americans who approve of detaining noncitizen terrorism suspects indefinitely if necessary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For The Record Dec. 24, 2001 | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...manic bombast and sheer tactlessness, none of the world's leaders can compete with the big mouth of Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Big Daddy's Big Mouth | 9/17/1973 | See Source »

...problem is complicated by the differences between an infant and an adolescent, but the basic legal principle for all minors is that the parent knows best. In broad terms, says William Aikman of the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, "the child's legal status is an amalgam of noncitizen, slave, overprotected pet and valuable chattel." He has no legal right to work, to choose his own friends, or to decide on his religion. Adds Henry Foster, who teaches family law at New York University: "Women used to need a guardian before they could enter a court. Now that feudal concept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Children's Rights: The Latest Crusade | 12/25/1972 | See Source »

Shortly before, he picked up the Valdosta (Ga.) Times. This brings his world wide total to 160 papers, of which nearly 50 are in the U.S. - the largest number ever owned by a noncitizen and the largest number currently owned by any U.S. publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Strength in the Afternoon | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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