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...argue, the U.S. seemed a bit more ordinary in more places than the football field. Ever since the Soviet Union imploded, we have gotten used to the idea of a unipolar world, with one superpower, whose capital is Washington. It remains the case that no other nation has such a combined preponderance of economic, political, military and cultural assets as the U.S. Even so, we now know that American might is not always able to bend the world and the times to its will. The clearest example of that, obviously, is the nearly four-year-long failure of the Bush...
...We’ve gotten contact with quite a few of the artists. I mean, they’re pretty eager to get on air. They’re all local artists. Some of them are bigger than others. The biggest one is Insight…he’s probably more professional-sounding than some of the others ones…[Some are] real local. We haven’t really heard of [them] up until this point, but…you’ve got to give everyone a chance. That’s the whole point...
However, the fact that the issue has gotten this far is noteworthy...
...teaching. They proposed that teachers should let children explore their own methods of problem solving—diagrams , tables, and calculators if necessary. Unfortunately, allowing children to find their own ways of dealing with math problems as opposed to emphasizing the mastery of basic math drills has not gotten results. The Bush administration has created a panel to do research on teaching math as a response to this problem. But they would save a good deal of time and effort if they took hints from some of our mathematically superior neighbors...
...Bernstein's advice for Taco Bell is to be aggressive and apologize for its poor communication. "They've already made one set of mistakes," he says. "They should come forward and say 'We haven't gotten out on the right foot, we should have had a person out front, our hearts go out to those who are ill.' If you've taken every step to prevent a crisis and to communicate it, the public is much more forgiving than...