Word: 12th
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SAINT MAYBE by Anne Tyler (Knopf; $22). In her 12th novel, Tyler turns her ) generous sympathies and formidable skills to an investigation of the sources and aftereffects -- both comic and profound -- of religious faith...
Saint Maybe, Tyler's 12th novel, fits neatly and logically into this progression. It draws on the strengths of its predecessors -- e.g., the riotous domesticity of Morgan's Passing and the painful loss at the heart of The Accidental Tourist -- while investigating more thoroughly than Tyler has ever attempted before the sources and aftereffects of religious faith...
...right? Under the Bush proposals, tests would be taken voluntarily by students across the country in the fourth, eighth and 12th grades, yielding uniform yardsticks of performance. What the exams would look like is unclear, although Education Department officials vow they would not resemble the multiple-choice exercises of the past. The achievement tests would document the knowledge of children in five core subjects: mathematics, science, English, history and geography. The White House has asked Congress for $12.4 million -- a pittance -- to start work on developing both the exams and the standards that would go with them...
...late 1960s, Keen left academia and eventually moved to Northern California, becoming a contributing editor to Psychology Today. Over the past 20 years he has been conducting seminars on personal mythology. Fire in the Belly is his 12th book, and he regards it as another effort in his lifelong exploration of modern mythology, in this case, the mythology of manhood...
...first U.S. President to be assassinated was Abraham Lincoln -- or was it Zachary Taylor? Last week the coroner in Louisville exhumed the body of the 12th President, who died on July 9, 1850, five days after consuming a large amount of iced cherries and milk at a sweltering Independence Day celebration at the Washington Monument. Back then, Taylor's sudden death was attributed to gastroenteritis. But Clara Rising, a Florida writer who is researching a book about Taylor, believes he may have been murdered...