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In part, he's been lucky. When he took office, Bush was the beneficiary of a decade's worth of reform efforts beginning with Ross Perot's mid-'80s movement to reduce class sizes and install statewide testing and accountability. By 1995 the state education code had been scrapped and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bush Formula | 11/16/1998 | See Source »

A writer who casts a preacher as a fool and a villain had best not be preachy. Kingsolver manages not to be, in part because she is a gifted magician of words--her sleight-of-phrase easily distracting a reader who might be on the point of rebellion. Her novel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hearts of Darkness | 11/9/1998 | See Source »

If Slam were a book instead of a film, it would read like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. As the story of a gifted young black man's struggles on the streets and in the jails of Washington, D. C., the main piece of this puzzle is undoubtedly Raymond Joshua...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 11/6/1998 | See Source »

The last step in the creation of 19th century Australian landscape was taken by the group known as the Australian Impressionists, whose most gifted members were Arthur Streeton and Tom Roberts. Between them they created a landscape idiom that would last for decades and is still enormously popular there today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Visions of Two Raw Continents | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

Jack Aubrey is a fighting captain, brave and beefy, unsubtle except in naval matters and mathematics. Stephen Maturin, Irish and Catalan, sallow and scrawny, is a gifted surgeon who can whip off a shattered arm or leg and Bob's your uncle; he is also a naturalist, a rare linguist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Square-Rigged Saga | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

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