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...first of these shows, "Survivor," is currently in production and slated to begin airing on a weekly basis starting Wednesday, May 31. Jeff Probst, of VH-1's "Rock & Roll Jeopardy," will serve as the host of this island odyssey, whose motto is "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast." In mid-March, sixteen castaways (eight men, eight women) were dropped on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. They must build their own shelter and gather their own food. They are allowed only one "non-survivor tool" from home, like a picture or a hairbrush, but nothing else. They will have...
James Bond films--the first of which, Dr. No, premiered in 1962--were well-suited to the Cold War's ideological fervor. It must have been great fun to watch Bond outwit and outclass hapless Commies. World is the third Bond film since the end of the Cold War and, while its Russophobia is still pronounced, the conflict has lost most of its prior urgency. Avarice and vainglory have replaced zealous patriotism as the cardinal passions of Bond's adversaries...
...support his ideal of a "true" American meritocracy, Lemann calls for a change to content-based college admissions exams. These tests would emphasize mastery of a nationally-established curriculum instead of "learning tricks to outwit multiple-choice aptitude exams." If he feels that this system would be less likely to discriminate against students in poorly run schools and less likely to be twisted by test preparation courses available to the rich, he is truly naive. The SATs are certainly not uncoachable, as ETS once claimed, but they are less dependent upon coaching than tests about subjects in history and chemistry...
...turn of the millennium, but this year as every year, students will try to outwit their teaching fellows and professors, graders will appreciate wit and originality in a huge stack of bluebooks and, by February, the marks will be entered and the academic cycle will begin anew. Indeed, some things never change...
...This man is supposed to outwit terrorists," one of the workers says despairingly...