Word: tacks
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...easy-to-read chart on the way into the meeting: Find your loved one's age and income and follow your finger to the magic number. Note that the lifetime earnings have been boosted by a flat $250,000 for "pain and suffering"--noneconomic losses, they are called. Tack on an extra $50,000 in pain and suffering for a spouse and for each child. The charts, while functional, are brutal, crystallizing how readily the legal system commodifies life...
...stakes exams have become a fact of life in the American classroom. Less noticed is the growing presence--and power--of firms like Kaplan that teach students and their teachers how to master them. The companies, which have spent decades deflating the mystique of the sat, take a similar tack with the grade-school exams. They maintain that test taking, like telling time or double-knotting a shoelace, is a "life skill" that every child can learn and no youngster should go without. Says Jeff McCullough, Kaplan's director of training and development: "Kids who have done well...are suddenly...
...Chan Tack will spend next year in India working with several non-governmental organizations that work with marginalized populations...
Anjanette M. Chan Tack ’02 of Leverett House, Dorothy A. Fortenberry ’02 of Leverett House, David F. Mihalyfy ’02 of Kirkland House, Ruth K. O’Meara-Costello ’02 of Currier House and Daniel L. Vazquez ’02 of Mather House were all named as fellows...
...what you will about it, compelled the University to reconsider an issue that deserved reconsideration. Too often, I think, the University relies on the passage of time and the inevitable turnover of students to avoid addressing potentially embarrassing issues, and that seemed to be the tack taken by the administration all last year, when it ignored the efforts of students, faculty and workers to engage in dialogue about its employment practices. In the same vein, what best characterized last spring’s ordeal for me was not the protest activity but the University’s continuing, indifferent response...