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Flynn, who has sponsored similar legislation for more than a year in the council, called the permanent ban on condominium conversion "our moral obligation. When are we going to respond to this crisis?" Flynn asked. "When all the rental units are converted to condominiums and we become a city of elites...
Helen F. Ladd, assistant professor of City and Regional Planning, said yesterday she considers herself a physical planner, as do most of the people in City and Regional Planning. "And while our substantive issues are different from the Kennedy School's what we're teaching is more similar to what's going on in the Kennedy School than in the Design School," she added...
Mainstream or not, some of the reaction to the reform movement has been strong. In New York, where a statewide truth-in-testing bill similar to that proposed by Weiss is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, all but eight of 26 testing groups expect to halt testing instead of disclosing the questions on their exams. Included are the new Medical College Admissions Test, Dental Admission Test, Nursing School Aptitude Examination, and the Veterinary Aptitude Test. The Scholastic Aptitude Test for college applicants will continue to be offered in New York, but four times a year, rather than eight...
...culprit, he declared, is the culturally biased IQ test. Peckham quoted a similar ruling in which Judge J. Skelly Wright summarized the reformers' point. Said Wright: "Although test publishers and school administrators may exhort against taking test scores at face value, the magic of numbers is strong...
Until now, no one has attempted to explain why Clover killed herself. Adams never writes about his wife in his autobiography. From outward appearances, theirs was a childless union of matched temperaments enjoying similar tastes, opinions and well-bred friends in Boston, Washington and London. Friedrich fills that gap with a fresh supply of letters, observations and a perceptive linkage of occurrences that could have turned Clover's basic melancholia into self-destruction...