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...tactical move of simply growing bigger, both organizations are also trying to project a new, more cooperative image. Moved in part by a Democratic President's enthusiasm for reforms like charter schools and tougher teacher standards, union leaders have in the past year begun to at least pay lip service to ideas once considered heretical. The shift was detectable last February, when the new head of the N.E.A, Bob Chase, made an astounding admission before the National Press Club in Washington: "The fact is that in some instances we have used power...to protect the narrow interests of our members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bite On Teachers | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

Your report was right on. For me, lately, graduate school has become more about lip liners and short skirts than education and intelligence. Although I will probably continue to watch Ally McBeal, you made me stop and think. KATIE OSTLER Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 20, 1998 | 7/20/1998 | See Source »

Give us the '40s Margaret O'Brien. Now there was a child actress who knew that childhood could be an orphanage, an abode of isolation, misery and misunderstanding. When Miss Margaret's lower lip got to quivering in Meet Me in St. Louis, why, it took a Judy Garland ballad to dredge the poor kid out of depressive hysterics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema Short Takes: Madeline | 7/13/1998 | See Source »

...nearby Cornell University in Ithaca. There a campus police officer saw him, disheveled and spattered with blood. His hand bore marks that, authorities say, were consistent with defensive wounds found on Costello. A small scuffle broke out as Laudor resisted arrest, and an officer suffered a cut on her lip. In Ithaca, Laudor confessed to attacking Costello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Precarious Genius | 6/29/1998 | See Source »

...Denver middle school, boys rationalize their actions this way: "If the President can do it, why can't we?" White House sex scandals are one thing, but how can anyone avoid Viagra and virility? Or public discussions of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS and herpes? Young girls have lip-synched often enough to Alanis Morissette's big hit of a couple of years ago, You Oughta Know, to have found the sex nestled in the lyric. But it's more than just movies and television and news. Adolescent curiosity about sex is fed by a pandemic openness about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where'd You Learn That? | 6/15/1998 | See Source »

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