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...Baltimore--and with EAI's teaching program, called Tesseract. Named after a magical pathway in the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time, Tesseract stresses small classes and individualized lesson plans. But, says Joe Nathan, director of the Center for School Change at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, who turned down a chance to sit on EAI's board, "I'm not convinced they know a good deal about how to improve what happens between teachers and kids, and that's pretty basic." A common complaint is Tesseract's reliance on computer drills. "They...
...remember that the Jesuits at Gonzaga High School maintained a chokingly blue-hazed "senior lounge" wherein we privileged men in our fourth year could light up cigarettes between classes. By graduation I was up to a pack of unfiltered Camels a day. The culture and its sustaining icons (Humphrey Bogart, for example) loved smoking. Today smoking cigarettes is disreputable, to me and practically everyone else. Change the myth, and the values follow...
...Andrei Gromyko, to learn English by listening to sermons in American churches. How Dobrynin, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, communicated with Moscow via Western Union, which sent a bicycle messenger to pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev got drunk while visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown and was carried back...
...Time Warner, Minnecorp, J.P. Olson, Chase Minnesota. Presidential candidates will hold their big, $100,000-a-plate fund raisers in Minneapolis, will pledge their support for water diversification and mention that, conservative though they be, they've always had a soft spot in their hearts for Hubert Humphrey...
...Little Colonel," who in 1941 rose from co-managing the Houston Post to commanding the Women's Army Corps. She was appointed the nation's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1953; her resignation two years later prompted Treasury Secretary George Humphrey to gasp, "What? The best man in the Cabinet...