Word: interpretative
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...admissions officials are purportedly looking for, as described in your story on the admissions process at three top schools [EDUCATION, Oct. 23]. On the one hand, the process favors students with "overcome" factors [those who come from families with little education or money], but on the other, evaluators can interpret a teacher's comment of "hardworking and motivated" to mean "the student isn't too smart." As a public high school teacher, I admire a student who has "overcome" a less than genius-level IQ to excel through consistent, honest effort and determination. Those students have proved themselves capable...
Apparently, the news service that provides raw voting data for the networks to interpret had been too hasty in extrapolating the results. To complicate matters, a truck on its way to deliver ballots for counting had gotten lost...
PLAN: Appoint Justices like Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who interpret the Constitution broadly, relying as much on the principles underlying granted rights as on the intent of the words themselves...
PLAN: Appoint Justices like Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg who interpret the Constitution broadly, relying as much on the principles underlying granted rights as on the intent of the words themselves...
...Instead, VES teaches a unique perspective about the human cultural and social experience. One senior literature concentrator currently enrolled in his first VES class explains, "I have come to think that there is a lot to be gained by learning to interpret and interact with visual art, visual data, visual literature. In many ways it is as rewarding as written literature or art history. It gives you a great additional perspective on the world to study it intensely even for one class...