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Duehay yesterday refused to predict the eventual outcome of the mayoral wrangling but said that he has "solid support from the four CCA people...
...take on Expos: it is the only undergraduate requirement which I consider sacred. Bad writing bothers me. I will entertain debate about the administration of Expos but not the necessity of it. Departmental bypasses are still under consideration, and I cannot predict at this point what the committee will decide...
...broad consensus that standardized test scores can be valuable as one factor, among several, in helping to assess candidates for admission.... The correlation between SAT scores and future academic success, however, is far from exact. It is not uncommon for individuals to outperform (or underperform) what the tests 'predict'--often by significant margins. In addition, the predictive power of the tests diminishes over time...
...endorsing Forbes soon because he champions Kemp's favorite issues, the flat tax and the gold standard. If Forbes doesn't get the nomination himself, he could throw his support to Kemp. If Forbes wins, however, Kemp could get his dream of being Treasury Secretary. If Forbes loses, cynics predict that Kemp can at least count on a well-paid sinecure in the Forbes publishing empire...
...about global warming or a micro-spat over a mayor's fecklessness in deploying snowplows. Otherwise, traumas of weather do not admit of political interpretation. The snow Shinto reintroduces an element of what is almost charmingly uncontrollable in life. And, as shown last week, surprising, even as the priests predict it. This is welcome--a kind of ideological relief--in a rather stupidly politicized society living under the delusion that everything in life (and death) is arguable, political and therefore manipulable--from diet to DNA. None of the old earthbound Marxist Who-Whom here in meteorology, but rather sky gods...