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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I was younger I lived in fear of finding out I was not as smart as I hoped I was. SAT's and IQ tests made me very uneasy. I still become jittery when someone in the room proposes a brainteaser I haven't heard before. That is part of the reason why I chose to attend an American college known for its unwillingness to give students C's. But this plan failed because intelligence is evident only in comparative terms, and it is painfully obvious that, judged by the standard of my peers, the Eastern European professors must...
...maintain that a large part of the population is condemned to failure from the outset would require a ruthlessness that Americans cannot muster except in jest (which might be why American comedy is largely about outrageous losers, like Kramer, Dilbert and Homer Simpson...
...keeping the good students from developing their full potential. The record does not help much in settling the issue: The United States is the wealthiest country and its top universities are generally acknowledged to be the best in the world. But many of its schools are downright awful and part of the reason for the success of the United States might be that so many foreign-trained experts (who usually turn out to be better qualified than the nationals) end up working here anyway...
...thing to accept that other people are better in some way (or even in every way). The trick (and it's an awfully hard trick to pull off) is to accept this without giving up trying to be as productive as one can in fact be. That part I'm still working...
...coffers to shift funding to the parental leave program from money set aside for temporary unemployment benefits. If the money comes through and states resist the urge to balk at Clinton's decree, this proposal has a lot going for it. "This is great news for anyone who's part of a family or plans to start one," says TIME contributor Amy Dickinson. "A lot of very important emotional work between a child and its parents takes place very early on." And a financial boost like this, Dickinson adds, would allow an oft-sidelined player back into the game: "Dads...