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Penning the transformational speech is Mike Gerson, the bespectacled former journalist who can quote passages from Martin Luther King more easily than the bromides of Barry Goldwater. An evangelical like Bush, a Hoosier who worked for Dan Coats, the former Indiana Senator, Gerson was one of the scribes of compassionate conservatism before it was given a moniker. Bush will call on his generation, the baby boomers, to lead the nation to take advantage of prosperous times. "I've seen the culture change once, and I can see it change again," the Texas Governor once told TIME about his fellow boomers...
...recent Thursday morning, a troop of shorts-clad men were jogging around the track at Indiana University's campus in Indianapolis. Standing in uniform on the sidelines, police officer Jim Ritter barked some unusual words of encouragement at one of the stragglers. "Remember, $50,000 a year!" he shouted, clapping his hands. "That's the motivation. Keep it going...
...students and educators. In the past year, protest-the-test groups have sprouted in at least 36 states. In Colorado, more than a thousand parents, teachers and students surrounded the state capitol in March and demanded that Governor Bill Owens take the test. (He too declined.) Parents in Louisiana, Indiana and California have gone a step further, filing lawsuits alleging that the tests violate their children's civil rights. In Illinois, 200 students claimed they flunked the test on purpose. Teachers are taking to the streets, with some walking out of exams or quitting the profession entirely. Even worse, some...
...Neal and his Lakers are up 2-0 in the best-of-seven championship series against the Larry Bird-coached Indiana Pacers. If the Lakers win, it will be the first title of O'Neal's career and the first for the Lakers since 1988 and the "Showtime" glory days of Magic and Kareem. Says Hall of Fame center Bill Walton, no easy grader: "This season he's performing at his highest level by far, at a level few players in the NBA have achieved. He rivals Jordan, Jabbar, Magic, Bill Russell; he's come into the absolute elite...
Magic Johnson, part owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, and Larry Bird, coach of the Indiana Pacers, have battled on the court for years; now their teams are facing off in the NBA finals. Their stats prove how they match up as athletes, but how do they compare as artistes...