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...exchanges and in cementing their personal stakes. The BSA condemned Mansfield, which it has the right to do, but then played into his game. I am not criticizing a student group for being involved in politics--just asking it to be aware of what it is arguing. As a scholar who Mansfield knows well once titled a chapter, "How Very Wise It is To Pretend to Be Mad at the Right Moment...
...movies (Steven Soderbergh, with Traffic and Erin Brockovich). Since nobody is an expert on this subject, we can blithely pass along bits of received wisdom and arcane Oscar lore so you will be better informed than your neighbor. To succeed in the Oscar sweepstakes, read the following with a scholar's acuity. Then take a list of the nominees, available from the Academy's useful website, www.oscar.com. Tack the list on a wall, blindfold yourself and start throwing darts...
...horrified by a visit to his granddaughters' prep school. The 12-year-olds, he says, "spend hours each month--directly and indirectly--preparing for the SAT, studying long lists of verbal analogies such as 'untruthful is to mendaciousness' as 'circumspect is to caution.'" Atkinson, once a distinguished visiting scholar at E.T.S., decided to take several SAT sample tests, hoping to find some value in all the kids' efforts. His conclusion: "America's overemphasis on the SAT is compromising our educational system...
While serving as a British Marshall scholar at King's College, Falkenrath...
Whether or not Mansfield is a racist can be debated until the end of time. Everyone has and is entitled to their opinion with respect to such a label. However, what cannot be debated is the fact that his credibility as a scholar is very much in question...