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Ashton B. Carter, co-director of Harvard’s Preventative Defense Project, said U.S. policy toward North Korea helped to make the country’s nuclear test possible...
...time is really worth? According to Interim President Derek C. Bok, $33.33 an hour is a good guess. Forget working for dorm crew or Harvard Student Agencies. The College is offering freshmen a sweet $50 to participate in a one and a half hour “Critical Thinking Test.” Bok hopes to sign up 400 freshmen this October and 400 seniors this spring. According to an email to the class of 2010 that Bok sent on September 5th, the test aims “to measure our contribution to students’ abilities to think critically...
...optimal SAT score has grown (from 1600 to 2400), and so has the hysteria over the test. While the SAT was once thought to be an objective way of comparing the reasoning of a be-blazered Exeter student to a cow-wrangling intellectual, everyone knows now that “the test can be taught.” Aside from legacy favoring and massive donations, the rich now have another highway to Harvard—boutique SAT tutors...
When Noah helps tutor his Albanian girlfriend for the SAT (yes, his girlfriend is conveniently studying for the SAT), he constantly reminds her that she is thinking too deeply about the test questions. And though Noah waxes philosophical about the implications of his teaching, he can barely pay his rent, health insurance, or loans...
...might have been expected that, three days after North Korea announced a nuclear test in defiance of the international community, the rogue regime would be suffering harsh consequences. Not yet, anyway. The U.N. Security Council appears divided as to just how harsh those consequences ought to be. What's more, the Bush Administration's strenuous assurances that it has no plans to attack North Korea - even as it defends its continued refusal to talk directly to the regime in Pyongyang - are pointers to some of the difficulties facing Washington's efforts to put the squeeze on Pyongyang...