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...these gates—how like the Chinese examination system. It is bigger and badder than the SAT, because Chinese colleges look at nothing else but this single test when accepting students. Gao kao—a phrase feared among high school seniors—represents a one-time chance to determine a significant portion, if not the rest, of your life. It is one of China's most unrelenting dams, after which students trickle into universities and later ooze into the job force...
...just what the Soviets achieved but the way we reacted to it--at least after we got hold of ourselves. Moscow, we figured, was already scary enough, what with Eastern Europe under lockdown and a bristle of missiles protecting it. There was no reason to make the bad guys badder; instead, we ought to make ourselves smarter...
...considered a Reform Party run for President. But that was just politics. Today he has a reality-TV show to promote, a show that--like his luxury high-rises encrusted in marble and gilt and christened with big gold Ts--he promises will be bigger and badder, brassier yet classier, altogether Donald Trumpier, than anything else out there. In The Apprentice (NBC, Wednesdays, 8 p.m. E.T.; premieres Thursday, Jan. 8, 8:30 p.m. E.T.), 16 aspiring businesspeople arrive in Manhattan to compete in teams (men vs. women) for the chance to become Trump's protege at a salary...
LaBelle says she tries hard to eat smart--avoiding salt and fried chicken, eating cheese-steak sandwiches without cheese or bread. "I can be bad," she admits. "But I know the badder I am, the shorter my life. And I'm not ready to leave...
ISABEL'S WARNING: Bigger, badder storms may be coming...