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RATHER THAN LOOK FOR A CART AND A horse, we should realize that EQ and IQ are two sides of the same coin. It comes as no surprise that emotionally well-adjusted people tend to have high test scores or that those with intelligence and problem-solving ability have a high EQ. The growing disdain for test scores is a dangerous trend. Is crying at the end of Forrest Gump more valuable to society than knowing when World War I occurred? Arguments based on emotion have resulted in the shrill and hysterical nature of discourse in the U.S. JOE HARDY...
Scandal is the coin of contemporary celebrity; it keeps the public interested. It makes Miss America a current affair. Funny how people have really cared about the pageant's politics: in 1945 the naming of the first Jewish Miss America, Bess Myerson; in 1979 the dumping of Bert Parks, the show's emcee for 25 years; in 1984 the dethroning of Vanessa Williams, the first winner of color, after sexually provocative photos surfaced. Race, creed, age, all have clouded the show. But like the winner at the moment of coronation--brandishing a mile-wide smile as she sobs...
Certainly Smith was scarred by the suicide of her father Harry when she was six; in her bureau drawer she kept his coin collection and an audiotape of his voice. But she and her two elder brothers seemed close to their stepfather Beverly C. Russell Jr., the local businessman her mother Linda married in 1979. The divorced father of three, Russell eventually became prominent in both the state Republican Party and the Christian Coalition. Smith's brother Scotty said late last year that Russell was "the force that held the family together...
...tape has become more popular, Koernke has been speaking continuously. He has allied himself at various times with movement firebrand Linda Thompson and the Militia of Montana, one of the most aggressive purveyors of the militia concept. Nine months ago, G. Michael Callahan, an Arizona coin and precious-metals dealer, began sponsoring The Intelligence Report five days a week on short-wave radio. Koernke has made two popular sequels to his video. And all that was before Oklahoma City...
Dershowitz further said that he did not coin the term "testilying" as union members had suggested. Instead, the term was first used by police officers in a 1994 New York City Commission report to describe the pervasive policy perjury in search and seizure cases...