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Mack I. Davis, director of advanced standing, said yesterday he will recommend to the Faculty Council that students be required to take four advanced placement (A.P.) tests in high school instead of three to qualify for sophomore standing...

Author: By Amy B. Mcintosh, | Title: Faculty May Tighten Advanced Standing | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...Palestine that the Egyptian army could salvage after fighting ineffectively against the creation of the state of Israel. The Egyptians subsequently used the region as a base for raids into Israel. Those raids ceased after the 1956 war between Egypt and Israel, when Gamal Abdel Nasser agreed to the placement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Strip: Homeless in Gaza | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

During the question and answer period following the talks, the two lecturers disagreed on the policy of grading students. Gould said that he believes the current grading system is unfair because it makes fine distinctions that are often used later as a criteria for job placement...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Danforth Panel Discussion Features Bell and Gould | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...slim and intense MacArthur senior. "But the board of education was supposed to be for us. Instead, it was a board of taxation." Says Rae Anne Caponi, Sabato's sister: 'Tm so glad to be back. But I'm worried about college credit courses and advanced placement tests." In Rae Anne's first psychology class, the teacher asked if anyone wanted to talk about the strike. One boy blurted, "I feel screwed." The problem of making up the lost work calls for the sort of student-teacher cooperation that money cannot buy and contracts cannot ratify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Long Island: The Lost Season | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Indeed, according to an Israeli estimate, the draft peace treaty was "75% to 80%" complete. The two sides had reached agreement on such crucial issues as the end of the 30-year state of war and the establishment of relations, the exchange of ambassadors, the location of boundaries, the placement of troops and the role of United Nations forces, and Israeli navigation rights in the Gulf of Suez. Egypt and Israel had also reached a meeting of minds on the future of two Israeli-built airbases in Sinai and the number and size of Egyptian fortifications in the desert peninsula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Whose Nerves Are Stronger? | 11/20/1978 | See Source »

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