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Owen, whose look "None of the Above: The Myth of Scholastic Aptitude" will hit the book stores later this month, charged that contrary for Educational Testing Service claims, success on the SAT doesn't indicate you are a good student-just a good test taker...
...legality." Aliyev made his name as first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party; he helped transform the republic's economy from the Soviet Union's slowest to its fastest growing. Among his innovations: productivity bonuses for agricultural workers who exceeded their quotas. "He is an exciting character, a risk taker," says Simes. "I don't know of any other Politburo member who is both as dynamic and as ruthless...
...losers. As the only "man of position and property" among them, the lawyer keenly feels injustice and fear. He offers money and then all of his possessions, including his ancestral home, to the one who will take his place before the firing squad. Against all expectations he finds a taker, a young man who wants his sister and ailing mother to survive him as wealthy women...
...revealed something about our life here at Harvard--this bastion of Establishment liberalism--that in the days that followed, informed public opinion, as gauged by this amateur pulse-taker, swung decidedly in favor of the death penalty. "Kill the mother-fucker" was the gist of the reaction I got from friends and acquaintances. Velma Barfield's victims were one thing, but this...
Coaches and customers frequently hail the pro who "wants the ball" down the stretch, the taker of the buzzer shot, Mr. Clutch. For eight or nine seasons, Cousy thought of himself that way. But over the final two or three, he tumbled to an almost opposite criterion for a professional. "I was very conscious of my skills eroding. Franco Harris can say what he likes, but the moment a back can't get to that hole, he realizes it. The minute there is even a subtle diminishment of legs, you're the first to know. I became aware...