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...History has been rewritten now,” Hays said during the show when explaining the importance of the chair, on which the current owner used to pile old newspapers...
...statistical analysis of one math question that had been rewritten to include a specialized math term. We can't print the question because it may appear on a future SAT, but I can report this: when the specialized term was added, the percentage of students who got the right answer in a field trial fell, from 68% to 21%--a staggering decline of 47 percentage points. Who are all those students who could do the math but didn't know the specialized language...
...that poor people want to be where rich people live. Jamal and Enayat are tracing the immigrant journey that created the Americas and is now remaking the face of Europe. In that sense, and for all its flaws and unanswered questions, In This World is the great human epic, rewritten in headlines and heartbreak...
...America's greatest inventions, conceived by the Founders to force a powerful Chief Executive to report to a public suspicious of kings. Delivered to a joint session of Congress in democracy's biggest cathedral, it is the most important speech a President gives each year, written and rewritten and then polished again. Yet the address George W. Bush gave on Jan. 28 was more consequential than most because he was making a revolutionary case: why a nation that traditionally didn't start fights should wage a pre-emptive war. As Bush noted that night, "Every year...
...written about horses, edited racing publications, even rewritten laws that regulate the sport. But for all he’s seen and done, he still considers himself a “customer” of the game...