Word: schaeffer
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Harvard University President Derek Bok was chairman of a commission that recommended the changes. The revision, he says, "begins to send a useful signal to schools that problem-solving ability is important, rather than simply the ability to identify the correct answer from a predetermined list." But Bob Schaeffer of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, a longtime critic of the SAT, charged that the board had failed to deal with the verbal section's analogy problems, which frequently make unconsciously elitist, racist or sexist assumptions about the backgrounds of those taking the test. On one recent test...
...show opens with two strong, bright numbers. The performers have an energy that audience cannot help but catch. Pier Carlo Talenti, Linda Doctoroff and Greg Schaeffer are obviously having a lot of fun with the first number, "Me and My Town." Doctoroff is sultry as she belts outs the lyrics and engages the audience by bantering with the other performers. Talenti and Schaeffer remain onstage ending the number with an up-tempo duet. Jenny Giering follows them, singing "The Glamorous Life...
...emotional level is well-sustained throughout this act by stunning performances by Giering in "In Buddy's Eyes" and by Schaeffer in "The Road You Didn't Take". But the lighter "Agony II" is a welcome break--it allows the audience a needed breather between powerful ballads. It is a funny male duet about fairy-tale romantic difficulties or the lack thereof. As one of the men notes, Snow White always had six other dwarves to choose from...