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...Then, upon learning that Baylor University had recently paid almost 900 incoming freshman to retake the SATs in an effort to raise the school’s US News & World Report ranking, we denounced this standardized test-gerrymandering as toxic. Unfortunately, this type of behavior is merely a distasteful product of an unhealthy and unwarranted cultural emphasis on test scores...
...uses a web of informers in businesses, educational institutions, and governments, many of whom probably don’t even consider their actions to be “spying,” to collect bits of data. The individual’s contribution may be miniscule, but the final product is a detailed portrait. And though many of China’s spies may not be professionals, the pool’s vast size offsets its lack of training...
While the stimulus package has risks, it also affords China a chance to rebalance the country's growing wealth. One by-product of China's prolonged expansion is that coastal regions - marked by boomtowns such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xiamen and Tianjin as well as their hinterlands - have grown much faster than the country's interior provinces, which have always been poorer. For years the central government has tried various policies to lift western China, without much result. The infrastructure push gives Beijing another chance to address divisive and potentially explosive wealth gaps that have grown between east and west, rich...
...freshmen and sophomores one year wiser and its seniors ready to take charge, Harvard had high hopes heading into the 2008 season. It did not disappoint, improving its league record to 5-1-1 and entering the NCAA tournament on an eight-game unbeaten streak.The turnaround was partially a product of Leone’s ability to take full advantage of his situation.“We’ve had great recruits the last couple years, and our senior class was the first core group to stick together in a while, so I think having that experience mixed with...
...extracurricular exploit. The pursuit of writing, editing, and reporting has symbolized the very events we cover: we aim to be our best, engage in (friendly) rivalry with publications both down the street and down the interstate, and we become close because of our mutual goal to make the best product possible every...