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...historical sense, Caperton's ambitious agenda for the big test is appropriate: 77 years ago, the exam began life as a tool of social change. The most significant early champion of the SAT was Harvard president James Conant, who, Lemann writes, disliked achievement tests because "they favored rich boys whose parents could buy them top-flight high-school instruction." Conant helped the SAT grow into the behemoth it is today precisely because it was different...
...still raise hackles, but now the fights are political: Penn visiting Iraq before the war (and then saying the Iraqis used him as a propaganda tool); Penn accusing a producer of freezing him out of a movie project because of his antiwar comments; Penn critiquing the U.S. invasion as if it were a screenplay. "There are incredible holes in the plot," he tells TIME. "The casting's terrible. This guy who is playing Donald Rumsfeld should be doing dinner theater. It's a really poorly thought-out movie, and it's killing people...
Harvard webmail, once praised for its high-tech “SpamAssassin” tool that purged virtually all spam from students’ e-mail accounts, has now been pegged as a distributor of spam itself...
Moulton will be targeting Boston area students and has looked into hooking up with the social life resource, Harvardparties.com, as a promotional tool for his soon-to-be start-up. This college senior has played his fair share of the famed drinking game in his three years at college and even chose his current apartment based on the fact that it had the perfect space for a Beirut table. His glorified hallway has seen many a beer pong game, including those that are not beer exclusive. “I don’t care what they?...
...right about my not getting it. How did a risque item popularized as a tool of seduction by Monica Lewinsky become the de rigueur fashion for eighth-and ninth-graders? Yet the trend is undeniable. Sales of thongs to tweens (a market now defined ridiculously broadly as ages 7 to 12) have quadrupled since 2000, from a modest $400,000 to $1.6 million, according to NPD Fashionworld, a market-tracking firm. And there's nothing skimpy about what girls ages 13 to 17 spent on thongs last year: $152 million, or 40% of their overall spending on underpants. Do their...