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...name of the tax-exempt beast is ETS, short for Educational Testing Service. ETS is responsible, if that is the word, for administering large gobs of the evil alphabet soup that you must take to get on with your educational career: PSAT, SAT, AP, GMAT, NTE, GRE. Most universities, or at least the ones you'd want to attend, make these tests a prerequisite to applying: no ETS, no education...
...higher, 89 per cent of the black graduates scored below. The court ruled that the racial classification that this created (albeit inadvertently) constituted discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment and that "there is no convincing evidence in the record showing any relationship between 1,000 on the NTE and effective classroom teaching...
...dismay, Congress seems determined to make the trade bill that the White House plans to introduce some time in the next few weeks a major test of wills between Legislative and Executive Branches. The battle could cause some dangerous zigzags in the entire East-West deténte...
...what the Spaniards call "much woman" and the French "une femme plantureuse." Italians once called Gina Lollobrigida "La Gina Nazionale." They now call Sophia Loren "La Sophia Seducènte." They prefer the seductress. Gina was, in their curious view, too refined. Sophia, they say, is a woman of the people, their dònna popolana...
...Madame Alda (now 66) recalls it, Caruso said, "Non fa niènte. You just stand still and move your lips and I'll sing it for you." With his back to the audience, he did just that. Says Alda: "I felt like sitting up in my bed and joining in the applause...
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