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...comparison, plays cunning tricks with dimension, makes the teddy- bear-size female gymnasts seem larger than they are, the redwood basketball players smaller. And TV distances as it disinfects, replacing an event with a picture of an event, the unimaginable with an image. Most of all, TV, by breaking down miracles into their component parts, makes them somehow add up to less than the whole -- unweaves, in Keats' phrase, the rainbow...
Studies have shown that SAT scores above a certain point bear little correlation to actual academic success in college. That is why colleges do not base their general admission policies solely on board scores. Class rank, more a function of the size and caliber of the student's high school than the student's aptitude, is only one small factor into the general admissions process...
...established long ago, Miller said the University may not defy the donors' stipulations. For instance, the Charles Downer Scholarship Fund, set up in 1927, states that, "Scholarships shall first be awarded to students of the University, whether in the academic department or in any graduate or professional school, who bear the family name or surname of Downer...
DESCRIPTION: Percentage of individual stockholders with plans to buy additional stock; color illustration of bear climbing over chart as men and women run away...
John F. Kennedy's promise in his Inaugural Address to "pay any price, bear any burden . . . to assure the survival and the success of liberty" was translated into policy as the Viet Nam War -- an unambiguous and, as it turned out, disastrous exercise in containment. Under the Nixon Doctrine of 1969, the U.S. deputized friendly potentates to defend Western interests. The star example, alas, was the Shah of Iran. In that case, as in others, this latest form of containment led American policymakers to rely excessively on the dubious principle that the enemies of our enemies would make good enforcers...