Word: brokenly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Timothy Santry '97, president of the Independent, discovered a broken window frame at the publication's offices in the basement of Canaday Hall on Sunday night, and subsequently filed a report of the theft...
...that didn't mean that the public sessions and backstage consultations were entirely serene and bromidic. All the Governors, plus the 49 invited executives from some of the largest U.S. companies (IBM, AT&T, Eastman Kodak), agreed that public education is broken and woefully in need of fixing. "We have students," said Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson, co-chair of the conference, "graduating from high school with diplomas that they can't even read, who can't write a coherent sentence or do basic math." The other co-chair, IBM chief executive Louis V. Gerstner Jr., whose critical remarks on education...
...much for the broken part. The fixing proved contentious. Most of the Governors were at pains to distinguish this summit from the gathering of state leaders assembled by President George Bush in 1989. That conclave, in which Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton played an influential role, wound up endorsing the formulation of federally developed national standards by which student competence would be judged. This decision not only ran counter to the nation's long tradition of local control (thanks to local funding) of public schools; it also proved embarrassingly hard to implement. A blue-ribbon panel dithered over a national history...
...among its members want to "re-stigmatize" divorce with the cultural equivalent of a scarlet D. Sadly though, divorce is already stigmatized in ways that are harmful to children. Studies show that teachers consistently interpret children's behavior more negatively when they are told that the children are from "broken" homes--and, as we know, teachers' expectations have an effect on children's performance. If the idea is to help the children of divorce, then the goal should be to de-stigmatize divorce among all who interact with them--teachers, neighbors, playmates...
...many pro-choicers concede that the fetus is a human being and argue that some people should simply be put out of their prospective misery, like a horse with a broken leg. You seem to espouse this view: "What if the fetus is retarded or plagued with the Epstein-Barr Syndrome--should the child be forced to live an unpleasant life?" Your concern for the future happiness of the fetus is most touching. However, your position flagrantly violates the principle of individual liberty. Nobody--not the chancellor of one's Reichstag, nor the general secretary of one's Supreme Soviet...