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In 1974, Allan Nairn, future critic of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and its most widely recognized test, the SAT, was a senior in a New Jersey public high school. He was faced with teachers, parents and fellow students who treated the exam with the cutthroat intensity of battle and...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saga of the SAT: A Culture of Obsession | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

The Big Test is an adept criticism of America's current educational philosophy--a cultural obsession with "making it," symbolized by the intensely scrutinized SAT. But the SAT is only a portion of "the big test" of Lemann's title. In his book, Lemann argues convincingly that the academic elitism...

Author: By Ruth A. Murray, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saga of the SAT: A Culture of Obsession | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

And the spotlight obsession isn't the only problem with Talk. For starters, Talk needs a redesign. The black cover is awful. It looks sinister and sleazy, which may attract a certain audience, but not the intellectual yet celebrity-obsessed audience Talk wants. The inside design is just as bad...

Author: By William P. Bohlen, | Title: So Far, It's Just Talk | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

In Webster's Dictionary a bigot is defined as "a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices." Given that definition, White is correct, even polite, when he refers to David Horowitz as a bigot. Anyone who examines Horowitz's writings over the years will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

My obsession with body hair, unlike most of my obsessions, actually began in a rare moment when I was thinking about people other than myself. Specifically, women. You see, the thing about me that I find most lamentable, besides my hairy butt, is that I'm attracted to the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaving the Body, Fantastic | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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