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...causing controversy: some felt that the SAT measured only an aptitude for taking aptitude tests. Plus, the test's sponsors found that some students viewed aptitude as a genetic quality, casting the SAT as a kind of annual experiment in eugenics. "That was a misconception," says Janice Gams, spokeswoman for the College Board, an association of 3,200 high schools and colleges that oversees the exam. Hence the test is now simply called...
Pollsters, trend watchers and merchants are convinced that couples are getting married earlier than a few years ago. Bette Kahn, spokeswoman for Crate & Barrel, and Donata Maggipinto, director of food and entertainment for Williams-Sonoma, say the brides being listed on their registries are younger. Carolyn Campbell, owner of Los Angeles' Wedding Library, which serves thousands of brides, says their average age in 1990 was 27; today it's 24. Notes Marci Blum, a New York wedding consultant: "I look around the room and think, 'You should be in high chairs...
...Gingrich spokeswoman Christina Martin delivered the somber news: "At the request of the White House, the fast-track vote has been postponed until sometime over the weekend." Friday and possibly Saturday will find Clinton back on the free-trade wagon, ringing his bell and passing out pork to any congressman willing to see the light...
Could it be that Hart's irreverent Web page was drawing traffic away from melroseplacetv.com the dull-as-Pravda official MP site? I tried to reach Bosworth for comment, but she wouldn't take my call. Bosworth referred me instead to a Spelling spokeswoman, who also couldn't say what, exactly, the problem was. ("I'm not a lawyer" was her line...
...Most tellingly, Jones' team is not directly rebutting Bennett's denial. Susan Carpenter McMillan, the spokeswoman who has been at Jones' side since the start, limited her comments to a snide "how in the world would he know?". At the same time, the plaintiff's new Dallas-based lawyers are stressing that this is "not a cornerstone" of the case. Which, doubtless, is a disappointment to tabloid reporters everywhere: The President may not have to reveal all, after...