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...teacher-basher," she says. "It's not that I disapprove of the job teachers and principals are doing. It's just that there are some good teachers, and then there are some bad teachers. And the purpose of standardized testing [like MCAS] is to level the criteria...
...What was Goldberg's motivation for getting involved with Tripp in the first place? The longtime Clinton basher claims her aim was purely to prevent the Pentagon worker from being "destroyed," and that the rumors of a book deal are just that. "If there had been a book," she said, "you'd very likely be standing there with it in your hands." Clearly, Goldberg is in need of an image overhaul; little details such as her habit of calling followers "my pretties" and her raucous celebration with son Jonah on the night the Lewinsky story broke have made...
...very least, as Joseph DiGenova, a former independent counsel and U.S. Attorney in the Reagan Administration, points out, "It's another unfortunate circumstance which is unnecessarily distracting." DiGenova faults Starr too for continuing his $1-million-a-year law practice, which includes tobacco clients, and for speaking at Clinton-basher Pat Robertson's Regent University. "Ken's a fine man, but he doesn't listen to criticism. He'd be better off if he had not represented certain clients or given certain speeches," says DiGenova. "He's made another terrible mistake, and there's only so much...
Faith, Western civilization and patriotism come off like tired middle class values, propped up by the likes of Peninsula editors. Surely, Peninsula, that vigorous basher of the liberal status quo, has not slipped into apologies for the two car family? It is not the fate of the magazine that interests me, however. If the former gadflies want to slip into a premature middle age, that is not my concern. But they will not drag faith and Western civilization after them...
...right." That's not the case, a Dole staff member insists. The real issue: "We need an enemy besides Clinton. Sometimes you're defined by your enemies--and [teachers' unions] are a great enemy to have." At the same time, Dole says he is not a teacher basher. "Maybe I don't make it clear enough, but teachers do a good job," he told TIME. "This is about the people at the top who won't let President Clinton make any reforms." But, says Kathy Bell, a Republican teacher from Florida who sits on the N.E.A. executive committee and feels...