Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saraiya echoed these sentiments. "It's good, because it ensures that you have all your application materials together early. The only drawback is that there is a short turnaround time to get your recommendation letters in order," she said...
Nicholas Lemann wants educational opportunity for everyone. He wants less emphasis on the "right" colleges and less hysteria about and dependency on standardized testing. He wants a society in which achievement need not be academic or youthful to be rewarded. In short, he wants students who are learning rather than earning grades. I absolutely agree. But in trying to reach these goals, he advocates a system at once even more divisive based on educational background and even less adept at providing young Americans with the opportunity to work hard and reach their potential later in life. In any case...
...forum, moderated by "Cambridge Inside Out" host Thomas S. Rafferty, was attended by nearly 50 people. Candidates, sitting side by side, gave short introductory and concluding speeches. In between, groups of four candidates were given one minute to answer questions on topics ranging from Cambridge's school choice system to Harvard's involvement in the public schools...
However, organizers showed a short film demonstration of their invention: a car alarm that shoots flames at would-be thieves...
...Well it's so short-lived. It's lacking the depth, the sense of the whole thing...