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...unique, I might not fall under the scoring rubric," concedes Frederic McHale, a vice president at the Graduate Management Admission Council, which owns the GMAT. On the other hand, E-Rater is mercilessly objective and never tires halfway through a stack of essays. The upshot: in pretrial tests, E-Rater and a human reader were just as likely to agree as were two readers. "It's not intended to judge a person's creativity," says Darrell Laham, co-developer of the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a computer-grading system similar to E-Rater. "It's to give students a chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Computers Do the Grading | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

Frank J. Connors, an attorney in the office of Harvard's general counsel, said he expects the case, still in its pretrial stages, to proceed to a conclusion in court...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: University Alleges Trademark Violation | 2/9/1999 | See Source »

...Senate majority leader, whose job will be largely to explore what many on the President's team believe is just the slimmest chance of a deal that would fend off a full trial. The President's lawyers, David Kendall, Charles Ruff and Greg Craig, are already in all-out pretrial mode, aggressively mastering the details of the evidence and planning strategy for questioning witnesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Burning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...Senate that DeLay played in the House--making sure the process is driven to the bitter end. After the impeachment vote, Lott issued a statement saying the date on which a trial would begin depended on how much time was needed for the President's lawyers to complete pretrial motions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Burning | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...years in jail. He fought extradition to the U.S. all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court before finally being returned to California in 1991. Once there, he became a jailhouse lawyer, filing complaints about everything from prison food to his attorneys. After a change of venue because of pretrial publicity, Orange County superior court judge John J. Ryan had finally had enough. When Ng, representing himself, refused to answer questions, Ryan ordered court-appointed lawyers to take over and set a trial date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Most Foul | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

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