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Then the split times for the 14th skier began flashing. Pirmin Zurbriggen, Muller's teammate, rival and mirror image -- a cool, reserved fellow who skis with a risk taker's wild flair -- was .05 sec. ahead, then .23 sec. A big outdoor TV screen showed Zurbriggen so close to disaster on one free-falling left turn that his hand scraped the snow. Muller watched, motionless, as Zurbriggen flashed past the finish .51 sec. in the lead. He did not react as Pirmin, exulting, raised a ski and kissed it. Muller was just one of skiing's centurions. Zurbriggen was fortune...
Short of giving each test-taker his own room, there is no flawless scheme. Any exam monitoring method is problematic because it is based on a sour--but realistic--assessment of human nature. And that is one of the few things that is harder to change than Harvard's policies...
...glass display case -- the Wall of Fame -- are the shoes of the famous hoofers who have cut a rug here. Betty Grable. Ruby Keeler. Anthony Quinn. Eleanor Powell. George Raft (tiny feet). Gregory Hines (boats). The cashier is on the right. The tariff is eight bucks. The ticket taker says sure, he'll get the manager. Call him Mr. Adam, on account of his surname starting in Little Italy and ending in Greece (Giannopoulos...
Data released by Educational Testing Service (ETS), the company that writes and grades the SAT, indicates that average scores vary depending on the test-taker's sex, race and wealth, Spalter said...
...matter; Jack Higgins' cliches are good fun, and ripe enough to require a ticket taker out front and popcorn in the lobby. "There's only one man for this job," says one master spy. "Only one man capable of playing a Nazi to the hilt and ruthless enough to put a bullet between Kelso's eyes." His subordinate reminds him that "Colonel Martineau was given a definite promise after that business in Lyons that his services wouldn't be required again. His health alone should make it impossible." Says the counterintelligence officer, summing up neatly: "Nonsense, Jack...