Word: asserts
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What's more maddening to national-test advocates is the defection of their supposed friends on the left. Liberal critics assert that the math test will stigmatize poor and minority students who don't perform well. They fret that schools will use national-exam results in determining who to promote to the next grade. And they even complain that the reading test discriminates against students who don't read English. Feelings run so strong in the House that virtually all members of the left-leaning black and Hispanic caucuses plan to vote against the tests this week. "If national testing...
...after the latest bombings in Jerusalem. Comparing the two events, the Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, reminded citizens that "battles are not tragedies. They are battles." Still, once the dead have been given their due, the calamity will serve as a powerful argument for Israelis who assert it is time to leave Lebanon. The Netanyahu administration says it will do just that if the government in Beirut will disband the militias and take responsibility for the security zone. Increasingly, Israelis are saying they cannot wait...
...whiteness of tooth, a colluding smile, a certain transparency, a vividness, an exposed vulnerability: it was enough for him, and it was enough for us. Madonna sings. Grace Kelly acted. Diana simply breathed. She was a social-page figure who became a cover girl. One can soberly assert that the Diana saga, in itself, was a nonstory, remorselessly and fanatically annotated by our own projections and desires. Rather, we are the story. Equipped with no talent, Diana evolved into the most celebrated woman on earth. What does that tell us about the third rock from...
...stricken ghetto dwellers. The 1968 Kerner Commission report famously declared that America was in danger of becoming "two societies...separate and unequal." In the hysteria following the 1968 riots, the Thernstroms say, the commission overlooked data showing that blacks had been making substantial strides. And 29 years later, they assert, it is clear that blacks gained more ground in education, income and other areas before the civil rights movement and affirmative action than they have since. In fact, the first signs of actual slippage emerged around 1970. The commission also failed to foresee that 40% of today's blacks would...
Male movie stars didn't always have to act like commandos to assert their machismo. How many bad guys did Clark Gable or Cary Grant kill in their careers as Hollywood heroes? Precious few, because life--even a villain's life--was held more precious then. Maybe the old movies were naive, but we'll take naivete over the thoughtless, numberless carnage that makes the modern action film a Bosnia for fun and profit...