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When Alexis Muskie talks about her daughter's experience learning to read, she begins to cry. Muskie, whose father-in-law was the late Senator and Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, lives in Peterborough, N.H. Before her daughter Olivia entered first grade, it became apparent that she would need some extra help, and so she received phonics tutoring in addition to her classroom instruction. But the school district had adopted the "whole language" approach to teaching reading. "There was a conflict between the special-ed teacher and the whole-language teacher," Muskie says. "The whole-language teacher was saying...
...points to Madison, Washington, Edmund Burke, John C. Calhoun and Ronald Reagan as political figures he admires...
Wright-Swadel also cites a reason for going through recruiting similar to the one Sir Edmund Hilary gave for climbing Mt. Everest: because it was there...
...pictures and awards, her Harlem Globetrotters jersey and signed basketball. She took down the formal portraits of Dean Acheson and Cyrus Vance, symbols of the soft-spoken diplomacy Christopher cherished. In their place she hung portraits of Thomas Jefferson, General George Marshall and her mentor, the late Senator Edmund Muskie...
...hospital incubators, then had another daughter six years later. She earned her master's and eventually her Ph.D. at Columbia by getting up at 4:30 and squeezing in the studying whenever she could. She got her first political job soon after earning her doctorate, serving as Maine Senator Edmund Muskie's chief legislative aide. Her Columbia adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski brought her into the White House as congressional liaison when he served as Carter's National Security Adviser...