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...autumn both houses will vote on an unprecedented resolution calling for "comprehensive" reform of their institution. The measure would create a bipartisan committee -- set to include four members who are not elected officials -- which would recommend ways to modernize the legislative process. But the enthusiasm for reform isn't boundless. The four outside members will not be allowed to vote on any proposals...
Readers, however, have an all but boundless appetite for revisiting accustomed pleasures. That is nowhere more true than in the mystery, whose audiences manifest, by their choice of genre, a taste for restoring established order. Victorians so yearned to watch Sherlock Holmes perform his tricks again and again that after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed him out of boredom, he gave in and resurrected the great detective. Dame Agatha Christie had the same murderous impulse toward Hercule Poirot, but slyly tucked the manuscript away until her demise. To this day, the first thing publishers ask is whether a mystery...
...across the world, America is still regarded as the home of optimism. But nations, no less than individuals, are often negligent of their blessings. This year marks the centenary of one of the republic's most bountiful and boundless founts of optimism; yet the occasion is more likely to be marked abroad than in the U.S. Henry Miller -- his middle name was Valentine -- was born the day after Christmas, 100 years ago, and spent the next 88 years as a professional enthusiast, making a living out of pleasure and a music out of saying yes. Where an Old World master...
Powell, too, has a seemingly boundless supply of energy, his parents...
...federally sponsored National Assessment of Educational Progress, which measures student achievement in seven subjects. Founded in 1947, ETS has a serene, campus-like headquarters near Princeton University, a staff of 2,960, more than 270 clients (including the Federal Government), gross revenues of $299.7 million -- and seemingly boundless ambitions...