Word: ridding
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...vote, on a scale of 1 to 100, on how awesome they are. At the end of the year, the ones with the most points are made homecoming king and queen, which, if I remember correctly, should immediately send their scores plummeting. If nothing else, it should finally rid us of Tila Tequila...
...clunky pod that attached to a shoelace. Mark Parker, then Nike's co-president and now its ceo, called the pod "the tumor" and in 2004 clamored for something better. Donaghu's group presented a prototype with a tracking device tucked under the sole. "The thought was to get rid of the tumor by making it disappear," says Michael Tchao, the general manager for Nike Plus...
...afford them.Despite their many flaws, however, standardized tests are a necessary convenience for many schools, serving as a coarse method of comparison between the tens of thousands of applicants a school may consider every year. Steps should be taken to ameliorate the importance of these tests, but getting rid of them is unfortunately not a viable option.The good news is that debate about the importance of standardized testing in college admissions finally seems to be spreading to those with the power to reform the system. Indeed, at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC) Conference held last week, discussion...
...uncommon in the Ivy league. In a 2004 article exploring tenure systems in the Ivies, the Journal of Higher Education pegged Harvard, Princeton and Yale as schools with the toughest tenure policies. Since then, Harvard and Yale have both undergone changes in their respective systems. For example, Yale recently rid itself of the “open search,“ a policy analogous to the senior search still followed at Harvard...
What happened to Prince Philip's letters? Several people, including Mohamed Al Fayed and Diana's longtime butler Paul Burrell, have already said that the Princess was convinced the Royal Family was planning an "accident" to get rid of her. And Al Fayed is pointing to her father-in-law Prince Philip as the one who ordered her alleged assassination. But the one piece of evidence that could reveal Prince Philip's true feelings about Diana is missing: a set of letters that he wrote to her. Burrell, who Baker "hopes" will give evidence during the inquest, says...