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...identity of the presidential search committee's pick to succeed Neil L. Rudenstine--the biggest secret the Corporation and its aides have had to keep in a long time--oozed out days before Sunday's official announcement, and the committee found its deliberations splashed across the pages of an eager press...
...decision came after nine months of consideration by the presidential search committee, which selected Summers as the best candidate to succeed President Neil L. Rudenstine. We believe Summers to be highly qualified. However, the extreme secrecy and exclusivity of the search denied students and faculty meaningful access to the decision-making process. As a result, though Summers has impressive academic and political experience, we know very little about his vision for the University...
...just fine in the work world. So Deborah Bial, a doctoral student in education at Harvard, has developed a three-hour exam that uses group activities, personal interviews and even Lego blocks to identify kids with potential that might be missed by a test like the SAT. "Students who succeed in college can overcome obstacles," says Bial, whose research is funded by a $1.9 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. "A standard paper-and-pencil test doesn't tell you much about these skills...
...requesting a letter of recommendation from a teacher or sharing rent payments on an apartment. The test, which will be given to 1,400 students this spring, is being paid for by the College Board, the people behind the SAT. Even they realize, it seems, that some folks can succeed without knowing how to find the volume of a cylinder...
...wait and see. If he opens the gates for the workers and allows people to work in Israel freely, I believe he's going to succeed. Ordinary Palestinians are not talking about a state now, or about freedom and independence. They're talking about how to find a side road to get to work by avoiding Israeli roadblocks...