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...introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing on the possibility that the illness might somehow be linked to inhaling a virus present in rodent droppings, though whether it is a new virus or an unfamiliar form of an old one was unclear...
When So finally addresses the issue of SAT test bias, he concludes, "The solution is not to edit out exam material that most minority students are unfamiliar with, the solution is to familiarize them." So misses the point. Why should anyone have to understand the securities market or chess in order to qualify as intelligent or worthy of admission into Harvard? So's statement is an example of the misguided administrators that has resulted in high dropout rates, student apathy, and low self esteem, phenomena which so ascribes to faulty cultural values. It is high time for educational administrators...
...becomes clear rather quickly, though, that this particular dream is going to turn sour. The first indication is at the "review sessions" that ubiquitously accompany classes with advance question exams. The lecture hall or section is surprisingly crowded, filled with unfamiliar faces...
...Steely Dan was making some of the most elegantly offbeat, wickedly incisive music ever to sneak onto the pop charts. Hits like Reeling in the Years and Rikki Don't Lose That Number were only the tip of the creative iceberg; beneath the taut tempos, cryptic lyrics and refreshingly unfamiliar melodies lurked an arcane, darkly sardonic intelligence summed up by the group's name, which was inspired by the moniker for a sexual appliance in William Burroughs' Naked Lunch...
...here in '96, which is not our intention. There's one more election, and we mean to win it." A harsh but realistic verdict -- and one that will hold unless Clinton changes his mind again, a course of conduct with which this particular President is not exactly unfamiliar...