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...time he married high-school sweetheart Wu Shu-chen, Chen had passed the bar exam as a National Taiwan University undergraduate and was moving into private practice as a lawyer. Through this phase of his career and the next?his emergence as a political figure following his stellar defense of the "Kaohsiung Eight" opposition group charged with plotting to overthrow the government, and his subsequent terms in office as a legislator and the mayor of Taipei?his approach remained basically the same: to out-prepare, out-study, out-argue and out-campaign his rival, whether that was opposing counsel...
...paltry. At a public meeting, where droves of parents joined a heated debate on the future of Norton's middle-school basketball league, the room cleared out when talk turned to Item B on the evening's agenda--the district's scores on the state's tough, new standardized exam. Says Richard Zusman, one of the district's curriculum coordinators: "It really makes you wonder what's important to these parents...
...Tech had received Fs on the state's report card for four consecutive years. Three-quarters of the students who began as freshmen never made it to graduation. Fewer than 25% of sophomores passed the state's basic-skills exam in math. Failure had become routine, expected and excused. After all, three-fourths of Fox Tech students are poor enough to receive subsidized lunches. More than half the students work at night to help support their families. Nearly 100 have their own children to support...
...results have been dramatic. This year 92% of Fox Tech students passed the state's math exam--the best performance in the district. The dropout rate--15% in 1995--is down to 4%. The old Fox Tech literally smelled from garbage left to rot in corners and from homeless men who used the fountain as a toilet. Now the school is spotless. Open house, which used to draw perhaps 60 parents, regularly attracts 600--spurred, no doubt, by Cockrell's having dispatched faculty to knock on doors...
...Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing...