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...format of the SAT will only increase the need for tutoring and the importance of attending an elite high school. Schools with smaller classes have been shown to assign more essays and writing assignments than those with large class sizes. Furthermore, writing skills can be taught and students will soon be attending classes in large numbers to learn how to write exactly what the colleges want to hear. That is, students who can afford to do so—wealthier ones...
...While the self-taught botanist had just a compass and guesswork to guide him, the team - brought together by the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden to mark the bicentenary of his feat by reenacting a segment of it - has all the tools of modern bushwalking. When one of the group injures his leg in a fall, there are mobile phones to summon a car along a fire trail. Caley may have put up with flour, dried beef and the birds the party's dog caught, but these walkers have freeze-dried kangaroo korma and bolognese, fresh snow peas, peanut butter...
...Harvard, Bennett ran track and cross country and contributed to the Harvard Independent and Harvard Magazine, he said. But he called his “most meaningful experience” taking a course called the Uses of History, taught by Warren Professor Ernest R. May and Dillon Professor Richard E. Neustadt at the Kennedy School of Government (KSG). Bennett became a case writer for them, and May served as his thesis advisor...
...with women were heedless and narcissistic. Though he never divorced his wife Elaine--like him a painter and heavy drinker who slept around with abandon--he fathered a child by another woman, set up the occasional household with still others and carried on countless affairs. At one point he taught each of his girlfriends to ring his studio doorbell in a different way so he could tell which one was coming...
...sensed in virtually every level of public discourse. "I actually became struck by the fact that people very routinely talk about major writers, historical figures, episodes in history on the basis of what are very, very banal clichs," says Robinson, who lives in Iowa City, Iowa, and has taught at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop since 1991. "My impatience with that became so marked that I felt as if I couldn't say anything true until I had essentially re-educated myself." Which she did by reviewing virtually the entire Western canon...