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...against bailing out the banks by more than 2 to 1 in some polls. Worse, the banks themselves are deeply mistrustful of anything government might force on them. The head of Wells Fargo told Bloomberg on Monday that a key part of Geithner's plan, the so-called stress test, was "asinine." (Read "Can Your Bank Pass the Stress Test...
Been posted in the library for a good 15 hours at this point? Ever since you attempted to ease that hangover with eggs way back during brunch? Sunday VOIDs can be the ultimate test of one's mettle. Your efforts will not be in vain, though. As Nike tells us just in time for the tourney: there are no Cinderellas...
...women stopped screaming, the soldiers zip-cuffed the young man and led him into the street. They made him kneel against a wall and swabbed his hands and pockets for residual explosive materials. The test came up positive. Back in the house, a sergeant pointed this out to the young man's father, who continued to insist that there had been some mistake. "But we saw him, too, guy," said the sergeant...
...Test prep teachers acknowledge that giving up the face-to-face mentoring aspect of tutoring could have a downside, namely that there's often no one cracking the whip to force kids to study. But for many students, scheduling cyber tutoring is more manageable than a marathon weekend session offline. Quinn McMahon, 18, a senior at the Thacher School in Ojai, Calif., for example, squeezed in an hour per week of online ACT prep this fall - along with supplementary phone calls to an Academic Approach tutor - in between football practice and studying for his four Advanced Placement courses...
...addition to growing their online presence, test prep programs are expanding into an often subsidized arena: tutoring by public and private schools. While not a new idea, these in-school programs are increasingly appealing in this economy, tutors say. The Princeton Review is in talks with five states about integrating SAT or ACT prep into all of their districts. Some schools help knock 20% to 30% off students' fees by offering use of their classrooms at no charge to the test prep company. Other districts pick up the entire tab of the Princeton Review program, offering it to students...