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...years after Californians booted Gray Davis for being politically spineless--not to mention dull--the oft-ridiculed ex-Governor is suddenly aglow with vindication. Amid the plummeting popularity ratings of his successor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, both a legal settlement and a documentary this summer attribute the state's energy crisis four years ago less to Davis' dithering and more to Enron's market manipulation...
...struggling to stay in power, Blair looks like a rock star himself, a happy warrior exultant at the prospect of forcing a debate over Europe's future. He may well lose. Still, he has the initiative, and you can bet the G-8 is not going to be another dull bogsat, but a powerful vehicle for amplifying his views. The other leaders would be smart to take notes on his technique...
...Lincoln's legacy 11 years later, at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Washington, offering a tender verdict from the perspective of someone who had been converted. If you judge him from the point of view of a pure abolitionist, Douglass said, "Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull, and indifferent." But, he went on, "measuring him by the sentiment of his country, a sentiment he was bound as a statesman to consult, he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined...
...part anger to two parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under the aegis of the marketing department." Stumpf hates the raw, unfriendly interiors of the standard school bus. He hates dull, inexpressive Amtrak locomotives. He hates hermetic, inscrutable electronics. "Things should telegraph their ability to come apart. You can't tinker with things anymore...
Cates, Barnes and other educators around the country agree that the American school system is partly to blame. In many elementary schools, reading time is devoted to "See Jane run" readers and dull word-drill workbooks. Another pedagogical problem: children frequently are force-fed new words by the "look and say" method, which requires recognition of whole words, rather than the more flexible and effective technique of phonics, or sounding out words, phoneme by phoneme. The consequence, as Nebraska's Democratic Senator Edward Zorinsky argued at congressional literacy hearings last fall, is that many children "are not learning to read...