Word: smarts
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...after future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux recorded his 3,000th strikeout, current Cooperstown tenant Don Sutton couldn’t help but make a Cambridge comparison. In describing Maddux’s intelligence, Sutton said the hurler was very sharp, but “wiser than he is smart. I don’t know if he could be the president of Harvard, but he could run Bally’s.”Kudos to you, Lawrence H. Summers.But then, of course, there was the infamous Ozzie Guillen.In the midst of managing the White...
...Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grants included in legislation passed by the House of Representatives last week, will, if signed into law by President George W. Bush, set a bad precedent for the nation...
...government’s mission to provide educational opportunities to all those who wish to attend college. Universal education is said to be the way to level the playing field and give those from less fortunate circumstances the opportunity to choose and pursue their own destinies. By limiting the SMART grants to only certain specialized subject areas, this legislation coerces financially disadvantaged students to go into these areas in order to pursue a college degree. While the program naturally advantages those who already intended to pursue these subject areas, it discriminates against those students with a desire to major...
...addition to this blatant injustice, the SMART grants also fail to resolve the alleged problem of worker shortage in national security and technology-related fields. Because the grants do not necessitate that the student remain in the field after graduation or do government work, this supposed investment in education to increase national security may never come to fruition...
...SMART grants passed by the House of Representatives therefore have been shown to discriminate against low-income students with no clear national gain. The consequences of the legislation therefore threaten the American ideals of access to unconditional secondary education for all and the right of Americans to make their own choices about their interests and vocations. The grants are thus a grievous error...