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After any natural disaster—a tornado, an earthquake, a home loss at the hands of Dartmouth, or the loss of a star quarterback—it’s too easy to fall back on the notion that all is lost...
...said the fact that his company has flourished while rigorously following legislation shows that strong morals lead to a strong bottom line—in contrast with the notion that the two are mutually exclusive...
...hitch in the campaign: a slightly misguided slogan encouraging people to “Be a Backseat Driver, Not a Reckless One!” Butterworth, laughing at the notion of drunk people in Halloween costumes shouting driving directions, admits that what they probably meant to say was simply “stay off the road...
...inborn traits but honed competencies. Whereas early psychometricians, many of them racist, propagated what Lemann calls the dipstick theory--the idea that a test score is like a mark on a dipstick showing the raw amount of intelligence in your mental oil tank--the field outgrew that simplistic notion at least a generation ago. "I don't think anyone believes the SAT or even pure [IQ] tests are--or have ever been--a pure measure of intelligence," says Zwick, the former SAT Committee chair and author of Fair Game? The Use of Standardized Admissions Tests in Higher Education (2002). "There...
...Degrees of Separation’s title refers to the (false) notion that every person in the world is connected through a network of acquaintances to every other person in just six links, and the play explores this phenomenon by contrasting Flan and Ouisa’s relationship with Paul—three degrees distant from them—with the one that they have with their children. This is one of the play’s weakest elements: the children make catty remarks to the parents, who in turn neglect them, and that’s just about...