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...only other state that measures its veteran teachers, does so by testing them not for general language skills but in the specific subjects they teach. So far, 49,000 have taken the Georgia test, and some 12% have failed. Here too the feeling is strong that the Texas approach was misguided. Said Lester Solomon, Georgia's director of teacher assessment: "Nobody in their right mind believes that [the Texas] test can measure a teacher's performance." --By Ezra Bowen. Reported by B. Russell Leavitt/Atlanta
University officials planned no disciplinary action against the arrested students and denounced any exclusive connection between the school and a prostitution ring. "I approach this with undisguised anger," said Robert Reichley, vice president for university relations. He noted that Brown went to the police in the first place "because we believe that young women at Brown and elsewhere may be victimized as part of these activities, and we acted primarily to protect them." And he stood firm in defending the school's own from any unsubstantiated charges. "We intend to be very direct," said Reichley, "in protecting the reputation...
...makes Hamlet believable as a whirlpool of contradictions: an inconstant avenger, a jealous yet indifferent lover, a humane moralist who kills innocents without remorse. Rather than impose a defining personality to achieve cohesion, Kline glories in the character's variety. Spontaneity and impulse are key to his approach. Exploring the role in rehearsal, Kline improvised without warning, flopping onto the floor when he was meant to sit, tearing pages from a book and pasting them onto Polonius' head with spit. Between scenes he would pounce on a piano or indulge what friends josh as chronic hypochondria by relaxing his back...
...starting point for a fresh approach has to be a consensus about what Shultz's depiction of the Sandinistas as unacceptable means, not in terms of anyone's tastes and preferences but in terms of a policy that can be carried out in the real world: What is it that the U.S. cannot accept about the junta in Managua? And what must the U.S. do to transform the Sandinista regime into something the U.S. can live with...
...large bounty on terrorists? Perhaps $1 million on the head of Abu Nidal? This approach would give every mercenary something to shoot for. Terrorist leaders would have to look long and hard at their followers and would constantly need to watch their backs, possibly making the terrorists less effective. James Amato Los Altos, Calif...