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...Bush, education has been a way to establish centrist credentials--this tax-cutting, small-government conservative likes to boast that he has increased state education spending by $4.7 billion, or 31% (and he exaggerates the figure, a very unconservative thing to do). It's all part of navigating a tricky course down the right side of the political center. In 1997, when he pushed through new curriculum standards, he angered both the right and the left: first rejecting the initial effort as being too full of "mushy" liberal pedagogy, then rejecting the arguments of the religious right that the revised...
...might expect that a news entity that calls itself "America's Finest News Source" would want the boast spoken by James Earl Jones and accompanied by John Williams theme music. In fact, the title has been appropriated by the Onion, a droll weekly newspaper published in Madison, Wis., devoted to producing deadpan, dead-on parodies of the resolutely low-key news reports wire services put out. Consider these recent headlines...
...Crimson will have to continue to defend well against the solid Hartford offense. The Hawks boast a slew of scoring threats, including freshman Signe Anderson, who notched the game winner against Harvard earlier this season. Harvard must contain the efficient and explosive Hawks attack to advance...
...sedans, the 1999 vehicles now rolling into showrooms are bigger, faster and more powerful than their forerunners, which is only fitting for the final model year of this automotive century. What's more surprising, perhaps, is that many of them are cheaper as well. The new cars and trucks boast some of the most technically advanced features ever loaded on as standard equipment--items such as a computerized traction-control system for the Chrysler 300M, and a keyless entry system for the BMW models that also lets individual family members program their own sound, seating and climate-control preferences...
...ensuing decade and a half, Wichita's home schoolers have hit adolescence. And with the legality of home schooling firmly established, home schoolers have been joined by an exodus from the city's troubled public schools. The result is a metropolitan area that today boasts 1,500 home-school families, many with teenage children demanding basketball teams, theater productions and science labs. So the home-school movement in Wichita has literally outgrown the home. Wichita's home schoolers boast three bands, a choir, a bowling group, a math club, a 4-H Club, boy- and girl-scout troops, a debate...