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...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...
...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...
Even more suspect is a claim by Masters that 24-hour access might lessen House spirit. House spirit? Between 1 and 8 a.m.? The only kind of spirit limited to House residents by locking the doors at 1 a.m. is the kind that comes in a bottle or goes on between two people behind closed doors...
...possible that Chocolat touched the soft center of Oscar's heart. And who are we to dismiss any movie with an appearance by the heartthrob of two millennia, Johnny Depp? Still, we suspect that inclusion of the film testifies only to the Academy members' belief that each year attention must be paid to a Miramax film, of whatever quality or heft. It's like tithing...
...long as I was outdoors and had a clear view of the southern sky. But it's hard to recommend one device over the other. While the Legend has by far the superior size, shape and display, the clunkier, battery-sucking Geode has better databases and expandability. I suspect the Geode will be the first to tell me where I can find the nearest Fleet Bank (and save me the fee for using some other bank...