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...harshest attacks against Chubb and Moe have come from some of the educators most sympathetic to incremental reform. "Their book is a profound example of the intellectual community's abandoning our most important democratic institution," claims Bill Honig, the California superintendent of public instruction. The choice model of rewarding schools for attracting students rather than successfully educating them troubles Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. "If your goal is merely to recruit students," Shanker says, "you can do that by offering a trip to Disneyland or with a good football team...
...their dowdy women's sections and mimic the biting profiles and flashy features by Sally Quinn, now Bradlee's wife. But the section that was once all snap and vinegar has gone flat under Downie. A profile of Senate majority leader George Mitchell, one of the Democratic Party's harshest critics of President Bush, devoted only a sparse paragraph to his romance with Janet Mullins, a senior Bush Administration official. Laments a Post reporter: "The old Style would have published a whole story of speculation on what they talk about and how they keep party secrets from each other...
...home the evening after the vote. Chamorro pressed a similar message in her victory speech. "This is an election that will never have exiles or political prisoners or confiscations," she said. Initially Ortega added to the aura of reconciliation with a graciousness that impressed even his harshest critics. In his concession statement, he hailed the "clean and pure electoral process" and pledged to "respect and obey the popular mandate...
...below. And to the north is a snow- covered volcano that continuously belches noxious fumes. This is the bottom of the world, where winds can reach 320 kph (200 m.p.h.) and temperatures can plunge below -85 degrees C (-121 degrees F). This is Antarctica, the white continent, the harshest, most forbidding land on earth...
Some of the harshest criticism is aimed at Brazil. The largest South American country embraces about half the Amazon basin and, in the eyes of critics, has shown a reckless penchant for squandering resources that matter to all mankind. Government leaders around the world are calling on Brazil to stop the burning. Two delegations from the U.S. Congress, which included Senators Al Gore of Tennessee and John Chafee of Rhode Island, traveled to the Amazon earlier this year to see the plight of the rain forest firsthand. Says Gore: "The devastation is just unbelievable. It's one of the great...