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...scary thing is that even with Rullman, Harvard would have been hard-pressed to make it a more competitive game. Columbia may be the best-kept secret in the Ivy League...
...campaign, which is designed to ignite the faithful as well as sell non- Catholics and political leaders on the excellence of parochial schools, promotes them as "the best-kept secret in the U.S." This they are not -- parochial schools have been part of U.S. education since the mid-19th century, and currently serve 2.5 million children. The real secret is how these schools have been able to do more for less. In the austere '90s, their cost-controlled quality and focus on fundamentals could serve as a model for public school systems seeking to conquer the problems of drugs, violence...
...fact, Bush's conversion did little to bring the talks out of their coma. Darman thought that the deal might be struck by August. But the Democrats continued to procrastinate, giving away little, particularly on social programs. The Democratic stall obscured the best-kept dirty secret of the budget talks: House Republicans were no more willing than their opponents to support Darman's proposed cuts in health and retirement benefits and other ( federal entitlements. They bombarded Sununu's office with private pleas to protect special programs. They signed joint letters opposing cuts in pork- barrel programs. At one point, senior...
...best-kept secret in the Ivy League" is no longer a secret...
...novel. For one thing, it is brief, deceptively simple, eccentric and entirely in keeping with the comic, macabre nature of her best fiction. And it is nice to know that there is more where this comes from. The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the eighth Jolley book, including six other novels and a collection of stories, to be released in the U.S. in the past three years. Prior to 1984, she was one of Australia's best-kept literary secrets. Now her international reputation has edged past the cultish toward the catapult of runaway acclaim...