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President Bush, in his wisdom, wants to improve schools by making them accountable. He's doing this in the same way you might make your dope-smoking teen daughter accountable: testing her all the time. Let's leave aside for the moment questions of whether testing really helps, whether schools just end up teaching how to do a test, or whether schools can actually get appropriate testing programs ready on time. Let's turn instead to the underexplored question of what effect the testing will have on parents...
Noelle Bush was supposed to start a new job at a Tallahassee software firm this morning, which could be one reason why she would have wanted something last night to help her sleep and lessen her anxiety. But whatever the case, say police, the 24-year-old daughter of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush tried to get her pharmaceutical help illegally. Shortly after midnight, after she pulled up in her white Volkswagen Beetle at a drugstore drive-thru to get a tranquilizer called Xanax, Noelle was arrested for alleged prescription fraud, making her the latest daughter of the extended Bush family...
...statement, however, Jeb Bush indicated that his daughter's case may be more worrisome than the underage drinking that got her cousins, the twin daughters of President George W. Bush, into trouble last summer in Texas. Calling Noelle's situation "a very serious problem," the president's brother referred to "substance abuse" and asked "the public and the media to respect our family's privacy during this difficult time." Bush's wife, Columba, heads Informed Families of Florida, which educates parents about the dangers of drug abuse...
...half after Kira was born because Lisa wanted to give her child legitimacy. Kerkorian consented on the condition that Lisa divorce him after a month and waive spousal support. Lisa says Kira's current stipend does not adequately allow the child to maintain a "station of life ...befitting the daughter of Kirk Kerkorian." That goes for her pet rabbit too; Lisa is also asking for $436 a month for her bunny's upkeep...
...some of your heroes, people who influenced you, inspired you? My father is obviously one; his ideas, his philosophy, have guided me along. I'm very much my father's daughter. But a lot of people inspire me. I have great respect for the good former Presidents of my country. Corazon Aquino inspires me very much, being a woman leader and all. She was able to fend off seven coup attempts and emerge with a strong institution that she was able to pass on to her successor to help bring the economy back on track...