Mission accomplished. The SAT is over, and I’m relieved. It is Saturday, March 13, and I have emerged from five hours of circles, triangles, graphs and vocabulary words I wish I could use relatively...

By Julie Barzilay “Ten Toes Takaki” was a surfer, not a scholar. “I may look like a professor to you, or a philosopher, with my silver mane,” Professor Ronald Takaki said, slicking...