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President Bush, campaigning for Republican candidates in California, began the week's verbal barrages by denouncing Iraq's siege of foreign embassies in Kuwait as "unconscionable and inhumane." Then he seemed to escalate. "I am as determined as I have ever been that this aggression will not stand," he declared. "We have a lot of troops there, and they are highly motivated. That alone is sending a strong message to Saddam Hussein." Speaking in Los Angeles the same day, Secretary of State James Baker was even more explicit: "We will not rule out a possible use of force if Iraq...
...since become a kind of academic icon and a national rite of passage for college-bound high school students. Every year more than 1.3 million of them take the 2-hr., 30-min. multiple-choice exam, which is intended to measure students' reasoning skills, math and verbal, as well as their readiness for college. High SAT scores -- perfection is 800 on each half of the exam -- have acquired the cachet of quality. Suburbs lure prospective home buyers by touting the SAT records of their high schools' graduates. Colleges boast of the high average scores of their incoming freshmen; nearly...
Partly to deflect the growing unhappiness, trustees of the College Board last week revised the SAT, although less radically than some critics had wanted. Starting in 1994, the SAT and its companion Achievement Test will be known as SAT-I and SAT-II.The former will test verbal skills and reasoning ability in math; the latter, knowledge of certain specific subjects, such as history and politics. SAT-I will include longer critical reading passages and more questions to test students' understanding of the material...
Dorf and Williams have created a play with the form of absurdity, but lacking in the witty and poignant content that makes Godot so appealing. The audience drowns in a verbal melange that finally forces us to ask, along with Rob, "Is this story going somewhere...
...report continues, "The comparison shows that on average, the admitted non-athlete/non-legacy applicants scored more than 130 points higher on the combined math and verbal SATs than the admitted recruited athletes, and 35 points higher than the legacies...