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Nearly 500 of the nation's top history professors responded to the Murray- Blessing update survey on presidential performance. They placed Reagan 28th on a list that includes 37 of the 40 U.S. Presidents. William Henry Harrison, who died after a month in office, and James Garfield, assassinated after six months, were not ranked. George Bush, still at work, is not eligible...
...stunning evocation is all matronly giggles and chilling folksiness. In other ably written scenes, Victor Garber brings condescending grandeur to Booth, Terrence Mann finds earnest simplicity in Czolgosz, Greg Germann gives a dorky sweetness to Hinckley, and Jonathan Hadary evokes hysterical egomania in Charles Guiteau, killer of James Garfield...
...kids living in a rustic time warp? Yes. Not far away from the Pine Grove schoolhouse sit two wooden outhouses and the old pickup Cal Phipps drives to school. He is only 13, but there is no school-bus service. Jordan -- nearby by Montana standards -- is the seat of Garfield County, 4,500 sq. mi., where the cattle outnumber the 1,600 humans and the flatlands are ribboned with cliffs called the Missouri Breaks. No one from Pine Grove in recent memory has ventured so far as Chicago for college, and Los Angeles might as well be Pluto...
...Pine Grove students know about Saddam Hussein, Milli Vanilli and crack? Not much. Do they care? No. "There's no great interest around here in going to New York City," says Don McDonald, 15, a sophomore at Garfield County High School in Jordan. Many graduates major in agriculture at two-year colleges around the Big Sky State and then return to family ranches if they have them. Otherwise they must look for work elsewhere...
...squeezed into my best pair of flesh-constraining Spandex, then pulled on my most inspiring t-shirt (the one that depicts Garfield saying, "I'm not overweight, I'm undertall,") and a sweatshirt. Palms sweating, I headed across Garden...