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The University’s notoriously discerning admissions office effectively grants right of entry to post-graduate Harvard Clubs. Few social establishments can boast of an application for membership that requires a personal essay and a laundry list of scholastic accolades—all by the age of 18.
But he also says that the "SAT has changed remarkably little over the years," which is true only in the most basic sense: it still examines verbal and mathematical skills. Even so, the question types have changed dramatically. The first Scholastic Aptitude Test, which was given on June 23, 1926...
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In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Scholastic; 870 pages), the sinister Potions teacher Severus Snape gives Harry a lesson in Occlumency, the art of hiding one's thoughts from magical prying. "Only Muggles talk of 'mind reading,'" Snape sneers. "The mind is not a book, to be...
FILED. A $100 MILLION LAWSUIT, by J.K. ROWLING, 37, author, and by SCHOLASTIC, U.S. publisher; against the New York Daily News, after the tabloid published details about the plot of the new, fifth Harry Potter book; in New York City. The suit claims that the newspaper damaged Rowling's intellectual...