October 1, 2004
Russia's Big Test
The government hopes to rid university admissions of corruption by introducing an SAT-style exam, but many in higher education are not pleasedIt doesn't look like a revolution, these teenage boys and girls sitting uncertainly at desks -- passports and pens laid out before them -- in Gymnasium 42. It doesn't sound like a revolution, this nervous quiet broken by the snapping of gum, then gasps, as test booklets are handed out, and opened.
Yet this is it, what is being
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