Word: placement
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...moment, about a dozen save-the-forest protesters attempt to rush onto the set but are held back by armed officials. Meanwhile, studio executives from 20th Century Fox in Los Angeles are on the phone constantly nagging the producer to lobby DiCaprio to wear Puma sandals for a product-placement plug. What makes all this tolerable for DiCaprio and his colleagues is the opportunity to bring The Beach to the screen. It is the story of an aimless traveler named Richard who gets a map leading to a secret beach where a post-hippie community uneasily shares its Eden with...
RETURN THE PAGE Online book buyers were in an uproar last week when Amazon.com admitted it had been selling publishers prominent placement for their books in sections such as "Destined for Greatness" and "What We're Reading." Amazon denies it ever spotlighted a book without editors' approval, but it will let customers return any book it ever recommended, no matter how beaten up. Amazon will also now disclose to customers which digital displays are paid...
Several minority students and civil rights groups, including the NAACP, have filed a lawsuit against the university system. The lawsuit alleges that current university admissions policies are discriminatory because advanced placement courses--classes which many minority students are unable to take by virtue of the high school they attended--figure in highly. At the very least, the Board of Regents must reexamine those admissions policies which are under attack...
...good time to ask this question, as the office of Dean of Undergraduate Education William Mills Todd III is currently reviewing, with individual departments, how Advanced Placement (A.P.) test scores could and should be used. But this type of review will simply reassess the "worth" of individual A.P. courses (a score of 4 or 5 on the United States history exam, for example, now counts for one full credit; four such scores would count for one year's worth of study); it will not reconsider the worth of the Advanced Standing program as a whole--a review which...
...would be really upset if their child didn't score well." Pepperdine University president David Davenport, father of a fourth-grader who clocks two hours of homework a night, sees a chain reaction: "The pressure to get into highly selective colleges and universities backs up into high school advanced-placement courses, which backs up to elementary schools." Anxious parents can rail about what teachers do in the classroom, but homework is still one area where parents can directly improve their child's chances...