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...critics are correct in that the SAT sometimes measures test-taking abilities more than intellectual ability. But the exam is not racially biased. It misjudges white, black and Hispanic high school students with an equal amount of imprecision. It is only discriminatory against those who do not speak and write standard English...

Author: By Alex Carter, | Title: Don't Abandon the SAT | 10/28/1997 | See Source »

Officials of the Health Care Financing Administration, a section of the Department of Health and Human Services that enforces federal nursing-home rules, were unable to justify to TIME the gap between recommended penalties and those that were ultimately exacted. The officials say nursing homes "have a right" to correct problems before penalties are imposed. But a former government inspector disagrees. "Congress said to impose these penalties, and they're not," says Charles Bailey, a lawyer who left the HCFA this year after spending nearly seven years trying to punish bad nursing homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NURSING HOMES: FATAL NEGLECT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...named China's President. But his perch at the top was extremely tenuous, almost entirely dependent on Deng's support. For that reason, Jiang was as reticent and correct as possible in his first years in power. When CNN interviewed the new President in 1993, he wanted to read all his answers from a TelePrompTer. On those occasions when he allowed himself a little spontaneity, it tended to backfire. In a 1990 interview with Barbara Walters, he described the Tiananmen killings as "much ado about nothing," prompting outrage in the West. "He is a lightweight," decided a Clinton Administration official...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: MEET JIANG ZEMIN | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund uses America's legal system to correct injustices and brings lawsuits on issues of civil rights and racial discrimination...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine Honored for Diversity Efforts at Gala Event | 10/23/1997 | See Source »

Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) officials are correct in their concerns and criticisms of the central administration's funding model, President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a recent interview...

Author: By Matthew W. Granade, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rudenstine Says FAS Criticisms Are Justified | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

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