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Eddie appreciated the help since he also coached girls' and boys' basketball (high school and college) and baseball. Otherwise, he lined the field, directed the girls' drill team at halftime and drove the injured players to the doctor after the game. Then he would sit down and write the story of the game for small newspapers that generally neglected to run it, copying his leads from the big papers. "One of them," he recalls, "went: 'Outlined against a blue-gray October sky . . .' " After Tank Younger arrived in 1945, it was the other teams' coaches...
...conduct when it returns to West Point, Murphy said, "We'll act the same way we always have. I wouldn't expect any change. There may be more thought put into the show, but I'm not sure that it would make any difference. That's for the drill master and the director two years from now to decide...
Such protestations, of course, have been historically useless where the general public is concerned. High school teachers drill their students on SAT-type questions for personal glory, and every few seasons a politician campaigns on the promise to raise scores. But at least such misguided faith in scores has not taken in most educators and administrators who have the ultimate responsibility for trying to salvage something from the public education system. Faced with the task of resurrecting collapsed schools and motivating uneducated teachers to function again, educators for the most part have had the sense to grit their teeth...
...took a Paideia seminar with Mortimer Adler last spring. Rather than a "first among equals," he was a bombastic drill sergeant, more devoted to playing "Guess My Interpretation" than to the discussion and evaluation of student ideas...
...major factor in Texas' new economic blues has been depression in the energy industry. A worldwide glut of crude has brought a sharp drop in oil prices, killing incentives to drill new wells. The number of active drilling rigs in the state has dropped 40% since December, and refineries and petrochemical plants in the state's eastern counties have been operating at about 70% capacity for at least a year. In the Houston bankruptcy court, 98 energy-related companies have filed for Chapter 11 protection so far this year...