Word: unexpectedness
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Lafayette College, a small liberal-arts and engineering school in Pennsylvania, started a five-year experiment with making SATs optional in 1995. And Lafayette officials found that the test, combined with other measures, correlated better with their students' performance than other measures alone. In addition, admissions officers found themselves lost...
As his edgy plots unwind through the murky terrors of enforced espionage, Furst's heroes are always deeply human, if not particularly heroic. They are not professional spies but bystanders drafted by events, often Eastern Europeans from the downtrodden states of the continent's core. They live in a fog...
"Jason" fared poorly with both critics and the public. The market was glutted with dubbed, Grade-Z reworkings of Greek and Roman sagas, a cycle that began with the unexpected success of the campy Steve Reeves "Hercules" in 1959. But "Jason" has aged well, primarily because of its fine cast...
At the June 1999 hearing, a junior at another high school testified, "I see firsthand what awful and hateful things students go through at school," and declared "It is a matter of safety, and no one should feel unsafe." In a room of 800 angry parents, who claimed the protection...
Greenspan liked the idea as an insurance policy against an unexpected and prolonged economic downturn, which is exactly how the 11 moderates who just made Bush's list - Republicans Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, plus Democrats Bob Torricelli, Evan Bayh, Thomas Carper, Dianne Feinstein...