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...verbal barbs were aimed at a new "strategic cooperation" agreement between the U.S. and Israel worked out during a three-day visit to Washington by Shamir and his top aides. Although the details need to be ironed out in future meetings between lesser officials of both nations, the package of military aid and trade concessions places Israel back in the forefront of U.S. policy in the Middle East, at the calculated risk of upsetting the moderate Arab states. As such, it was an abrupt shift in the Administration's Middle East policy, which had stressed U.S. efforts to play...
Although Shamir, 68, lost most of his family in Poland during the Holocaust, he seems less traumatized than Begin about the past. Unlike Begin, he shuns the Talmudic obsession with verbal precision, concentrating instead on the practical reality that the words are meant to address. An uninspired and an uninspiring speaker, Shamir is also less divisive than Begin. He has few intimates outside his family (wife Shulamit, 60; son Yair, 38, an air force pilot, and daughter Gilada, 34). "He is sphinxlike," says Knesset Member Amnon Rubinstein. That befits a man who was a leader of the terrorist underground before...
...that scores on the Achievement Tests, which are detailed exams on specific high school subjects, tend to predict freshman adacademic performance better than scores on the more general and less curriculum-based SAT. Test experts--both at Harvard and nationwide--have recently argued that the SAT reflects not verbal or mathematical "aptitude," as advertised, but rather a high school senior's lifelong exposure to good books and magazines and analytic thought. In short, the SAT is more likely to reflect socioeconomic status and school quality than intelligence. The same experts argue that the Achievement Tests are more straightforward and hence...
...conversations his family holds around the dinner table. But the Achievement Tests measure much more directly a quality the student has even less control over: the quality of the high school curriculum. A student at a mediocre high school may have little chance of scoring well on the verbal SAT, but is he really any more likely to ace the Chem Achievement? Ironically, the fact that Achievements predict freshman grade point averages better than SATs do reflects this very imbalance. Obviously the best-prepared high school seniors will start out with the highest grades, but, as the admissions office constantly...
ONLY WHEN HARDWICK focuses upon a work of fiction does she unite form with content. The title essay, "Bartleby in Manhattan", is one of the finest in the collection. She takes Herman Melville's novella. "Bartleby the Scrivener", and dissects it as a verbal tour de force. Bartleby speaks only 37 times in a story of 16,000 words concerning himself, and each time he speaks he does so in a variation of the phrase "I would prefer not to." Hardwick convincingly equates Bartleby's character with the modern New Yorker; his footlessness is the predecessor...