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...answer these questions, you have to understand both how the SAT rose to prominence and how it has fallen into turmoil. Appropriately, the story begins in California. In the two decades after World War II, the College Board struggled to build the reputation of the SAT, which was first used experimentally in 1926. The board desperately wanted the University of California, then the biggest university in the nation, to fully adopt the test. In 1962, as Nicholas Lemann says in his brilliant history, The Big Test, an SAT honcho wrote to his colleagues of the dire consequences if U.C. decided...
...turmoil in Uganda was fueling the spread of another enemy--AIDS. Like many rebel soldiers, Ruranga was on the move constantly to avoid detection. "You never see your wife, and so you get to a new place and meet someone else," he says. "I had sex without protection with a few women." Doctors found he was HIV positive in 1989. "They told me I would die in two to three years, so I started preparing for when I was away. I told my kids, my wife. Worked on finishing the house for them. I gave up hope...
Meanwhile, the Muslim Jalals on the second floor are in turmoil because husband Ahmed, after years of proclaiming himself a religious freethinker, has been behaving like a mystic, leading his wife Arifa to worry that he is the victim of an evil eye. And unknown to all the adults in the building is the Asrani daughter Kavita's movie-besotted plan to elope with the Jalals' son Salim...
...often feel like they have only one option--abortion. While some resources do exist that could be used to help pregnant students, finding them in the maze of Harvard offices and departments is somewhat like a scavenger hunt. And for a student faced with all the stress and emotional turmoil of a crisis pregnancy, the inability to find the financial, academic and residential assistance that she needs may make her feel like she is forced to choose between her child and her education...
...Soon after arriving--and partly in response to the turmoil around her--Gutmann became interested in philosophy and switched her concentration from math to social studies--the subject that would dominate her life and work for three decades. She threw herself into her new subject, always studying and working...