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...disaster in recent history and to the general confusion that has plagued Her Majesty's Opposition in the four years since Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher led her Tories back into 10 Downing St. Since the Thatcher victory, Labour has experienced both intranecine warfare and wavering leadership from its standard-bearer, Michael Foot. And in a South London parliamentary election Monday, that disorder left its mark. Bermondsey, an urban working-class district held by Labour for the last 60 years, fell instead to the Alliance candidate by a whopping 38 percent in a special election, when Simon Hughes, a 31-year...
...YEARS, the makers of the SAT have been accusing their attackers of killing the bearer of bad news. When consumer advocates marshalled statistics to show that SAT scores are closely linked with family income, the testers came right back with evidence that family income corresponds just as closely to a host of other academic indicators. In an imperfect society, they argued and argue, the poor simply are unlikely to receive as good an education as the rich. The SAT only illustrates that fact...
...worth of rambling into a small comic epic. He jousts with a tailor over a defective suit: "The sleeves suffer from an objectionable surfeit of length, and the waistcoat is eminently distinguished in that it creates the impression and evokes the unpleasant semblance of my being the bearer of a fat stomach." His adventures are many, but nightfall brings them to an end: "As I looked at earth and air and sky the melancholy unquestioning thought came to me that I was a poor prisoner between heaven and earth, that all men were miserably imprisoned in this way . . ." Hindsight lends...
...Marines who disembarked in Beirut quickly took over the port area from the French units that had been there since the previous Saturday. First ashore was the flag-bearer, Lance Corporal James Dunaway, of Hattiesburg, Miss., followed by 200 men of Company E of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit. A Marine emblem pinned to his shirt, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had negotiated the agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. that led to the Palestinians' withdrawal, stepped forward to greet Marine Colonel James Mead, commander of the volunteer force...
Disregarding standardized tests because they suggest that poorer students have less education smacks of 'killing the bearer of bad news.' Robert E. Klitgaard...