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...Hope Central Academy, says the examiners who came to the school "didn't have a clue," and administered the test during children's nap time. She also suspects the State Department of Education, which commissioned the study, may have wanted vouchers to come off badly because its bureaucratic inertia makes it resist systemic reforms like vouchers. Even the study's authors concede their results don't necessarily discredit vouchers. They note that the small edge displayed by voucher students in two of the six test areas could grow over time to a more significant advantage. And they say the Hope...
...CALENDAR INERTIA...
...Notwithstanding the general levels of euphoria fostered by the Undergraduate Council, the Office of the Dean and donuts (and the possibility of more donuts to come), this little college community is chock-full of centripetal force. And inertia. And unfortunately, there's hardly any movement round here overcome such problems--except, of course, for every 11th day, when Dining Services drops a Jamaican Jerk Chicken bomb on an unsuspecting student body...
...have already died. A not guilty verdict had been anticipated, according to TIME correspondent Bruce Crumley, "although Herv? was expected to be publicly blamed, because he had legal control of the health administration and should have been the most hands-on of all officials involved." But rarely has bureaucratic inertia had such terrible consequences. "When you realize the horror of what occurred, it's hard to see nobody paying for it," says Crumley. "But the experts say they simply didn't know much about AIDS back then...
...Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti-Americanism and cultural wreckage of the Vietnam era, he headed hard right. In 1960 he became editor in chief of the leftist journal Commentary; after his conversion he repositioned it as a leading...