Word: personalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Only one person in 365 experiences Opening Day in a state of innocence. They're the chosen ones...
...English system has important benefits for students who have clear career plans. For example, a person who wants to be a doctor can "go straight into medicine at 18 and qualify at 23-24," Chirgwin says. "We're more specialized in high school. You decide at 16 what your future...
...British fellows say they have mixed reactions to Harvard exams. The English "system of assessing performance I find more desirable but I'm an exam sort of person," Taylor says. "There are three terms when...you're just learning, not assessed. After having time to learn, then you're tested. I find it slightly irritating that here the students are tested week by week, as if they were still in" high school...
...most antiquarian and arguably cruel of ceremonies. People trek to the senate house at 9 a.m. and find out their fate," he says. In the past, the person with the worst score would then step forward and have a wooden spoon dropped on his head from the balcony, he says. "Everything's public and aboveboard; there's none of this I.D. number business...
...Looking through the passenger's luggage, a Customs official discovers the small cache. In the past the official might have levied a perfunctory fine. In accordance with a new get-tough policy that took effect last week, however, U.S. Customs officers will now arrest, book and fingerprint every person entering the country with illicit drugs, no matter how small the amount...