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Despite the fact that Marglin is often isolated within the Economics Department because of his outspoken and liberal beliefs like this one, he maintains that Harvard is the best place for him because he hopes, by teaching, to give students an alternative framework to turn to if they ever undergo the same crisis of faith he did as a newly tenured professor...
...massive factory-like building on 400 acres of wooded land in Princeton, N.J., ETS officials create, grade, and evaluate their tests. They hold workshops to train a freelance pool of people who, along with ETS employees, devise test questions. The process is time consuming and meticulous. The prepared questions undergo a series of reviews for simplification and clarification, in which ETS employees try to spot and eliminate all the potential cultural or sexual biases they can find. By the time a question reaches final test form, it has been inspected at least 30 times, and that takes 18 months...
Lloyd said "an awful lot of people" do not seek medical aid for impotence because they do not want to undergo lengthy psychotherapy. However, physicians can detect hormonal abnormalities through blood tests and restore full potency through medical treatment of hormonal imbalances, the study concludes...
Richard Kelly, a third-term G.O.P. Congressman from Florida, was once a state circuit judge who was impeached by the state's house for harassing lawyers and fellow judges (the senate subsequently dismissed the charges). Later ordered by the Florida judicial qualifications commission to undergo psychiatric examination, Kelly visited a hospital on his own and earned a clean bill of health. That enabled him, on entering the House in 1975, to claim: "I'm the only member certified to be sane...
...fairness to the government, the Church is able to carry on in this manner because the Philippines does not have martial law in the classic sense. There are no tanks or heavy military presence in the streets, except in the seccessionist areas, and only the anonymous political prisoners undergo torture. Instead the government uses more subtle means to curb the Church's criticisms. Marcos's underlings raise the legaliztion of abortion and divorce and the expansion of birth control programs to increase their leverage with a church solidly opposed to such measures. Without ever adopting such issues and further unifying...