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...less work to grade, and win points. THis chic, shaded calligraphic script so many are affecting lately is handsome, and is probably worth a good extra five points if you can hack it. But above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying if you try. We did. Best wishes, A Grader This letter first ran on January...
Washington-area vultures would act more politely. "Let me take down your phone number," one of them might say, "and maybe we'll try to work out some kind of agreement." No hurt feelings. No enemies or commitments made. Only a joint press release chock-full of the empty statements that make up reporting on politics here...
...above all, keep us entertained. Keep us awake. Be bold, be personal, be witty, be chock full of facts. I'm sure you can do it all without studying if you try. We did. Best wishes, A Grader This letter first ran on January...
...play is an adaptation of The Revenger's Tragedy, a preposterous Elizabethan melodrama. It depicts an Italian ducal court, stuffed to the gills with lecherous courtiers. The action is chock full o' deceit and betrayal, with a healthy dose of gratuitous violence, and lashings and lashings of sexual misconduct. The original (anonymous) author was so out of control that the play ends with only three characters still standing. This production lowers the tally to zero, although the last living soul succumbs, somewhat improbably, to a chronic case of backache...
Sent back to the drawing boards in June with orders to "firm up the math," Clinton's team quickly produced Putting People First (or PPF, as it is called), a 232-page paperback chock-full of numbers, all of which Clinton swore "added up." At its bottom line, the proposal promised to halve the nation's deficit by 1996, an assessment many considered sober and even courageous because it backed off Clinton's earlier intention to wipe out the red ink entirely by the end of his first term. But even this modified deficit- reduction promise owed little to Clinton...