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What is all the fuss about teachers [NATION, July 20]? I've taught high school English for almost 20 years, and I've discovered that good teachers produce students who learn how to teach themselves. Good teachers are passionate about how young people learn. Good teachers are those who quietly ignore the wasteland of school administrations and the quibbles of the unions. They just teach their classes. JOHN E. WHITING Matawan...
...Reno has said she simply wants three more weeks to review LaBella's memo before she makes a decision. Far be it for Burton to shy away from a scrap with Reno, Eric Holder or anyone else -- but waiting another three weeks might have saved everyone a lot of fuss...
...Lott doesn't want to fuss with campaign finance anymore," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "There's just no benefit for the GOP to take it up -- their constituencies don't care anymore." Either that, or they're not rich enough to get Lott's attention...
Seem like a fuss? It is--a long-overdue fuss. About two years ago, the video-rental business began fading faster than Godzilla. Remarkably, the decline had little to do with new technologies like video on demand, long thought to be the industry's Death Star. The threats from technology persist. But it was management, not technology, that caused so much corporate pain and so many customer complaints. After all, how many times are you willing to go out for Titanic and come back with The Poseidon Adventure? Eventually you just stop going out. And that's exactly what happened...
...FunMail seemed like a better approach. The PCI card would improve the video quality and speed the download time. Imagining how thrilled my wife would be when she got video mail of me singing Seltzer Boy, I opened up the PC and got the card in with minimal fuss...