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...banks, but the Isle of Man remains a down-to-earth place. Exile millionaires live quietly amid the 72,000 Manx residents, and the sense of affluence that pervades its sister tax havens, like the more southerly and glamorous Channel Islands, is less evident in this wind-battered scrap of land lying roughly equidistant from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. "We have a northern, gritty approach to things here," says John Cashen, chief financial officer to the Manx Treasury. "We have to work harder for every pound...
Then, in a Feb. 18 speech to his fellow college presidents, the psychologist who runs the University of California suggested something radical: Scrap the thing. Richard Atkinson says the test hurls kids into months of practicing word games and math riddles at the expense of studying chemistry or poetry. He wants to make SAT scores an optional part of the application for all 90,000 kids who want to go to U.C. each year. "The SATs have acquired a mystique that's clearly not warranted," he proclaims. "Who knows what they measure?" Those of us who wanted to stick...
...establishment has also landed a piece of prime Harvard Square real estate. Daedalus is located just close enough to the River Houses for undergraduates to stumble home safely. It is close enough to Tommy's Pizzeria so that those who have spent all their money on drinks can still scrap together enough for a slice or two. And it is close enough to The Crimson for--well, for headlines to be more interesting from...
Investigators went trolling for disaffected Russian intelligence veterans who might have had useful information, and in the fall of 2000 they delicately wooed several, targeted for their knowledge and weaknesses. One informer came in with a priceless item--a piece of a black plastic garbage bag. From that scrap, FBI lab experts lifted two latent fingerprints and ran them against every set in the agency's personnel file. Bingo: they matched two on the 10-print card filed in the name of Robert Philip Hanssen...
...Then, in a Feb. 18 speech to his fellow college presidents, the psychologist who runs the University of California suggested something radical: Scrap the thing. Richard Atkinson says the test hurls kids into months of practicing word games and math riddles at the expense of studying chemistry or poetry. He wants to make SAT scores an optional part of the application for all 90,000 kids who want to go to U.C. each year. "The SATs have acquired a mystique that's clearly not warranted," he proclaims. "Who knows what they measure?" Those of us who wanted to stick...