Word: suspects
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While walking down Oxford St. near Garfield St. at approximately 10:30 p.m., the victim--a resident of Cambridge-- was approached by a 30-year old white male, about 5'11" and 160 pounds, with fair skin, light blue eyes and a light-colored scar around his mouth. The suspect was also wearing a hat, a scarf and a green jacket...
...suspect then drew a silver handgun and demanded that the victim give him all of his money. The victim complied and the suspect fled the scene. The victim described the suspect as educated and very well spoken...
...suspect involved in that robbery fits the description of the suspect in the Oxford St. robbery and acted in a similar manner, according...
...what right-wingers like him think than I am in what we think, and frankly, I don't understand why so many of us continue to pour so much more energy into attacking the alleged biases of standardized tests than we invest in improving our children's scores. I suspect it's because we're afraid that the racists are right when they claim that our kids can't cut it intellectually, so why bother trying. That's nonsense, of course--an echo of the sense of inferiority that afflicted blacks during the bad old days of Jim Crow...
...course, Florida and Texas lawmakers weren't attacking the SAT itself. They wanted to maintain diverse campuses even though affirmative action had been banned in their states. Conservatives suspect U.C.'s Atkinson has the same motive. Those who favor affirmative action have long wanted to ignore SAT scores, says Ward Connerly, a U.C. regent and anti-affirmative-action activist. (Atkinson has said he wasn't motivated by race.) Connerly believes moving away from standard measures like the SAT will mean colleges lose their fundamental goal of academic excellence. "Looking at a student's potential and the adversity they've overcome...