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Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Matthew S. Meselson, who laid the foundations for the study of DNA and contributed to the U.S. ban on biological weapons, will receive the Lasker Award for Special Achievement??which comes with a $25,000 award and a statuette of Winged Victory—at a special ceremony in New York...
...federal government’s standards overall. These districts were put on the federal watch list because one of 16 categories of students failed to make “adequate yearly progress.” Some of Massachusetts’s best schools—in terms of overall achievement??were placed on the watch list when a small group of students did poorly on a test. This strange outcome results from an understandable desire to help groups that are often underserved by the public schools...
...into Leizer’s spinning class in Martinsville in anticipation of appearing in Glamour.) After all, how purportedly feminist can a pageant be if you have to fit that societal mold of thinness? She scorns these criticisms, even listing the weight loss as her “greatest achievement?? in the pageant magazine...
...telling me that there’s no such thing as a “dud”—that everyone defines success in his or her own way, and blah blah blah. That’s rubbish. Yes, there are many different kinds of achievement??some that can be measured by one’s accomplishments, and some that cannot. A dud is a Harvard student that is faltering in the former category—and there are plenty roaming around Cambridge...
...various achievements. A high score on the SAT coupled with a high secondary school GPA will yield a large number of points, and thus a greater chance of acceptance. Under the university’s affirmative action program, however, 20 points are awarded for the “achievement?? of being black, Hispanic or Native American. If prospective students are of any other racial or ethnic group they have nothing to fall back on except the merits of their applications. Simply put, affirmative action is discriminatory because it establishes standards for university admissions based exclusively on race...