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...synonymous with candy definitely helped motivate those looking to win friends and first kisses. We’d create a kind of “Be Mine” swapmeet for about half-hour after recess, allowing the kids with the most Garfield valentines or pastel candy necklaces to gloat over the proof of their fame. For whatever reason, I completely forgot about the scheduled lovefest and had nothing to give. I sat quietly at my desk and watched as Kelly Kinchen told everyone not to give me any chocolate hearts because I was too stingy to bring...
...Politicians have never been shy about overselling their achievements, but in this case the President (and the bill's congressional backers) had reason to gloat: the measure Bush signed Tuesday morning remains remarkably uncorrupted by the parochial interests that often drag down well-intended legislation. There is little doubt that the new law will force thousands of schools and hundreds of thousands of teachers to change what they do. But will such changes actually help more children learn? The answer depends largely on what happens next...
...face death in total defeat. As he prepared to make his last stand, did bin Laden still rejoice in his victory, confident that God would smile on his achievement? Back in November when he sat in front of the camera with the servile Saudi sheik to giggle and gloat over triumphs beyond his fondest hopes, he confessed to only one miscalculation: he had thought that only the tops of the skyscrapers would collapse, killing hundreds. What a lovely surprise--the answer to a prayer, his disciples suggested--that the buildings actually crumpled, killing thousands. He had succeeded even beyond...
...morning after the education reform bill finally made it out of conference committee after five months of often bitter negotiations, three of the bill's original architects, Democratic senators Mary Landrieu, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh, took a few minutes to gloat. Over danishes and coffee they called the bill "revolutionary," "a quantum leap" and "the real thing." Later in the day, President Bush pronounced the reforms "historic" and Ohio Republican John Boehner, who ushered the bill through the House, proclaimed, "These landmark reforms will bring purpose to a federal law that has lost its focus and never...
When was the last time your PC crashed? Not to gloat, but it hasn't happened to me for weeks. That's because I installed a preview version of Microsoft's new operating system, Windows XP, almost two months ago. And Ol' Sparky rarely seizes up now. Before XP, my computer tended to crash about three times a day, which is probably par for most hard-core users of Windows 95, 98 and ME. Most PCs crash as frequently as bumper cars. If Windows XP did nothing more than increase stability, I'd gladly pony...