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10.16.08

Baylor Rewards Freshmen Who Retake SAT Sideblog | Comments
Baylor Rewards Freshmen Who Retake SAT - "In an effort to rise to the top of the national college rankings, Baylor University has offered its freshmen money to retake the SAT and improve their scores." [via NYTimes]

Tagged: College, Education, Interesting, nytimes, sad
10.11.08

Simpson planned acquittal party Sideblog | Comments
Karma's a bitch: O.J. Simpson had planned an acquittal party

Tagged: bad people, jail, murder, o.j. simpson, parties, prison, sad
09.24.08

Former Amherst Professor on David Foster Wallace Learning, Life | Comments
The 139th online comment in response to a New York Times portrait of the late author was by a former teacher of his: I can't say how his death makes me feel: he may have had the words, but I don't. So here's a true fact to embellish his reputation (not that it needs much embellishment): He wrote two senior theses at Amherst. A creative thesis in English that was his first novel, "The Broom of the System," and a philosophy thesis on fatalism. Both were judged to be Summa Cum Laude theses. The opinion of those who looked at the philosophy ...

Tagged: author, crazy, david foster wallace, quotation, sad, teachers