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...emphasize the SAT usually focus more on evaluating the high schools that students come from. "If we don't have SAT any longer, we'll have to weigh more heavily on what's left - the students' GPA, their curriculum of college-prep courses and other things," says Rae Lee Siporin, admissions director of ucla, which receives more applications each year - about 40,000 - than any other U.S. college. But those measures can amplify the inequalities among high schools even more than the SAT. As Duke University admissions director Christoph Guttentag notes, "The students in school districts with more resources will...
...another plaque stands in Rosebank Crescent, where part of the plane's fuselage landed along with more than 60 bodies. Tommy Rae, a decorator who lives here, will never forget the noise of the explosion that blew in his front door. "When we got out, we could see smoke and power lines lying across the road. I went to the car and put the lights on. There were bodies everywhere, some three deep, and an American passport and food from the plane all over our front garden," he says. Forever in his memory will be "the lass lying...
...SENTENCED. RAE CARRUTH, 26, American football player, to a minimum of 18 years and 11 months in prison for conspiring to kill Cherica Adams, his eight-months-pregnant girlfriend; in Charlotte, North Carolina. Carruth, who was accused of setting up the drive by shooting in 1999 in order to avoid paying child support, was acquitted of first-degree murder. Adams died after a month in a coma, but her baby survived an emergency delivery by caesarean section...
Look at the Ravens' Ray Lewis. Just after Superbowl XXXIV, Lewis was charged in the stabbing deaths of two men after a brawl. He was mentioned in the same breath as former Carolina Panther Rae Carruth, who was involved in killing his pregnant girlfriend. Even after the legal matter was settled, things looked bleak...
...Rodriguez became the poster boy for greed when he reportedly demanded private jets and personal flacks in negotiations with the New York Mets; pro-basketball star Allen Iverson was called on the carpet by the NBA commissioner for misogynist imagery in his new hip-hop release; and football player Rae Carruth faced a real rap: he's on trial for ordering the murder of his girlfriend. For all the murk, some splendid performances managed to shine through...