Word: comparisons
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...tempt more people to fudge. And if taxpayers were not required to produce their records in court, the IRS might resort to more intrusive methods of fact gathering--for instance, squeezing information from brokers, clients and ex-spouses. Digging through your own checkbook ledgers would be a pleasure by comparison...
...interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being waged from New Jersey to Alaska. But such comparisons say nothing about why even poor districts somehow manage to produce a handful of excellent schools, such as Baltimore's Canton Middle School (see box), flourishing even though 86% of its students fall below...
Small classes are one of many variables that make comparison difficult. While kids in the single-sex program benefit from a higher ratio of guidance counselors to students, they may suffer because many of their teachers are green, hired almost straight out of graduate school for this program. Another factor: the program aims to attract underachievers, on the theory that they have the most to gain. To sort through these conflicting elements, the district has hired statistical experts from the University of California, Berkeley...
...heart of the book is the trial, a judicial three-ring circus featuring jury tampering, espionage, soaring oratory and federal meddling, all set against a background of corruption that makes the contemporary political scene seem virginal by comparison. The liveliest section describes the kidnapping of "Big Bill" Haywood and other union leaders by Pinkerton detective James McParland. Unable to extradite his prey legally from their Colorado headquarters, McParland abducted them, bundled them onto a train and ordered the tracks cleared all the way to Idaho. Such episodes of swashbuckling adventure bring out the crack reporter in Lukas as well...
...Marquis de Sade. Hackford is smart enough not to let the cinematography get in the way of Pacino: as Milton, the actor is his own special effect. And when the actual special effects--including a wall sculpture that comes to swarming, slithery life--do appear, they pale in comparison to Pacino's "hoo-ha" rambunctiousness...