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History lesion.
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Dec 14 05:24 UTC 2000 |
December 13, 2000
Inside Politics
Jennifer Harper
News and political dispatches from around
the nation.
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Shades of Gore past
The ironies of history surface with
much persistence.
Researcher Tony Siegel of Validea.com
- an on-line information resource - found
this tidbit from an article, "College
Entrance Tests Fail To Ruffle Students'
Aplomb," which ran in The Washington Post
on Dec. 6, 1964:
"Similarly poised was Albert Gore, 16,
another St. Albans 12th-grader whose
father of the same name is the senior U.S.
Senator from Tennessee.
"Young Gore, who aims to study liberal
arts and pre-law at Harvard University,
said he'd found some of the questions
'pretty tricky.' But he seemed mainly
concerned that he might have left a few
stray marks on his papers that would
mislead the 'dumb machine' that scores
them electronically."
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