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Experts are uncertain about the reasons for high Asian performance. William Dean, who directs special programs in Fort Collins, Colo., where there are 150 Asian-born students, observes that whatever the students' verbal skills, "there is a universal language available in mathematics." The Asians speak it fluently. The national norm for math on the Scholastic Aptitude Test is 467 out of a possible 800. In 1981, Asian Americans averaged 513. In California a remarkable 68% of Japanese-born students scored over 600, as did 66% of students born in Korea...
...this second level the director must offer not necessarily a single interpretation, but at least a consistent perspective from which the audience can approach the play. The current production of Cocktail Party at South House offers a smooth and entertaining show, but director Rebecca Gould seems uncertain what aspects of the convoluted script to highlight. While justifiably unwilling to answer the questions the play poses, she swings too far in the other direction, failing to choose even one or two of those issues as a focus...
This plot is not simple even in design, and its execution proves fiendishly complex. Charlie is an unknown quantity with uncertain loyalties. To be made plausible to the Palestinians, she must be coached by Becker in the rhetoric of the dispossessed. He impersonates her imagined lover: "You know how the Zionists described my country before they seized it? 'A land without a people for a people without land.' We did not exist! In their minds, the Zionists had already committed genocide; all that remained for them was the fact. And you, the British, were the architects of this...
City Manager Robert W. Healy said yesterday that although the amount of money the city would receive under the proposed budget is still uncertain, "public safety will be one of our top priorities" in distributing the funds...
Bank Chairman Michael G.R. Sandberg summoned consultants to review the runaway costs, and will await their report in May to decide whether to make cutbacks or modify the design. Still, even in the face of Hong Kong's uncertain future-China could take control when the United Kingdom's lease on much of the crown colony's land expires in 1997-the bank seems determined to build a monument that, says Munden, is more than "just a building...