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...reason for Gorsuch's unpopularity within EPA and also on Capitol Hill is her brusque, no-nonsense manner. She keeps a strict time limit on all appointments. When asked an inconvenient question, she is apt to retort that any answer would be "the rankest kind of speculation." Yet, in a prideful display of prodigious homework, she lectures listeners in mind-numbing detail on EPA programs about which she knew almost nothing until her appointment. Though she has been in the midst of a divorce since before she went to Washington and serves as a devoted single parent to Sons...
...away from Charles Dickens' hoary label for any era: "It was the best of times; it was the worst of times." But they failed, drawn again to that time-worn language to describe the maddening contradictions of the world today. And indeed, Dickens' words may be especially apt for 1982, a year with no poetry in its sound, no numerical magic. It is a year that a number of scholars and statesmen are already predicting will be momentous for the industrial democracies of the West, a time combining peril...
...also the most dissatisfied and the least proud of their work. They are the least Godfearing, except for the Danes. Along with the Germans, they take the greatest interest in politics. And while far less eager than the British to march off to war, they are far more apt to march off to strikes, demonstrations and even revolutions...
Such an individualistic response may not be wise in the face of massive national problems, but it has been an antidote to bad times since Italy became a nation. Italians, who seem to have an expression for just about everything, have coined an especially apt one to describe the way life goes on while institutions flounder: malgrado, meaning in spite...
...means "bringing together." Saxon's synthesis of traditional practice and drill with the fundamentals of modern algebraic theory taught clearly may provide an alternative to the present dismal state of mathematics teaching. Alfred North Whitehead, the English mathematician and philosopher, once noted that "the study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment." If John Saxon is right, the study of algebra may not end so. -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jeanne-Marie North/New York