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...very expensive process," contested Nicosia, which would be "prohibitively expensive" if special administrations such as the Sunday test always used fresh exams. Given what is at stake, this concern about finances is troubling. We'd like to think that the people who make the SAT work in an economic vacuum. But attention to the costs is also instructive, as ETS and the College Board have recently introduced a number of changes that will be sure to increase revenue generated by pre-college testing...

Author: By Dan S. Aibel, | Title: Testing Irresponsibility | 11/4/1995 | See Source »

...science policy report contains a specific set of recommendations and explains them in the context of the real world of scientific research and technology transfer," said committee Chair Jerry R. Green. "The new policy, in contrast, seems to have been created in a vacuum...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Is Science Policy Going Awry? | 11/3/1995 | See Source »

GGreen, chair of the Science Policy Committee and former University provost, said that Harvard's new policy "seems to have been created in a vacuum...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Is Science Policy Going Awry? | 11/3/1995 | See Source »

...stuff" is in sharp contrast to the earliest days of the group, when Goldman and Wink completely streamlined their belongings. "One day we just threw everything out of our apartment.... Every book, every piece of furniture, everything hanging on the walls, everything because we needed to create this vacuum, clean canvas, have this space so that we could create in it. And that was in some regards the first Blue Man and everything since then has been about accumulation. We've got a lot of shit. We can't hold...

Author: By Joyelle H. Mcsweeney, | Title: CECI N'EST PAS UNE PIPE | 11/2/1995 | See Source »

...have all been enlightened by Arafat's real politics. Terrorism works. It won't stain your permanent record. It will accord you respect for loyalty to a cause, any cause, in a world ruled by diplomatic men living in a more civilized moral vacuum. Now Yasser can be one of us. We should welcome his visit for he is a true diplomat. It seems that the Mayor mistook principle for policy. Let's not let that happen again...

Author: By Joshua A. Kaufman, | Title: Who's The Whore? | 10/30/1995 | See Source »

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