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Shin says he took a calculus exam last winter with a reader who was not familiar with the integral sign, and he contested the grade he received on it. Dunne also says she took an exam with a reader who could not recognize a mathematic symbol...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Question of Responsibility for the Blind | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

Dunne's reader expressed confusion about a symbol in a problem, and asked her to guess what it was. Dunne says she refused and "wasted" ten minutes arguing with the woman...

Author: By Kelly A.E. Mason, | Title: A Question of Responsibility for the Blind | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...many East Germans, Pieroth is a trenchant symbol of an unwanted West German economic anschluss with East Germany. "The process of developing our own character won't be advanced by flying in experts with their own agendas," says Wolfgang Templin, a member of the parliament from the leftist, ecology- minded Initiative for Peace and Human Rights. To develop a free-market economy, Templin and other critics maintain, East Germany does not have to ape the economy of West Germany. But that is precisely what East Germans voted for overwhelmingly last month, Pieroth responds. Says he: "We can't dictate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Germanys A Westerner for the East | 4/9/1990 | See Source »

...also the ultimate sellout. Donald J. Trump is a money-mongering megalomaniac. Greed incarnate. A symbol of the decline of Western civilization. A union-busting, low-income tenantevicting real estate speculator. One of Them...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: One Trump, No Heart | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...brutality alone of Harris' crime would make him notorious. A conjunction of place and time has made him something more: a symbol of the future for the nation's more than 2,200 death-row inmates. If Harris goes to the gas chamber, California will join the relatively short list of states that have carried out executions since the Supreme Court declared the death penalty constitutional in 1976. And it will do so at the very moment that the death penalty has become a hot campaign issue around the U.S. "There is almost a mob attitude in California, a frenzy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Politics of Life and Death | 4/2/1990 | See Source »

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