Word: margarete
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...been covering Bush, and Karen Tumulty and Tam Edwards, on Gore, have shown how it's possible to be sophisticated without being jaded. Chief political correspondent Eric Pooley is a diligent, probing fact finder who has constantly dug deeper into topics that others were treating glibly. And our columnist Margaret Carlson has, throughout the year, provided a tangy mix of sharp wit and common sense, as she does with her column on Bill Clinton this week...
...Yeah, me neither, says the reader, presumably a Frank Sinatra fan, elsewise he or she would be reading Margaret Salinger's book. Unlike Salinger, Tina isn't out to keelhaul her father, at least not consciously. "He was a man who all his life looked outside for what was missing inside," she concludes at one point. Still, you hate to see the Chairman of the Board reduced to the level of a case study for an Oprah segment...
...their daughters' classmates for signs of breast buds--and reassurance that their own girls are perfectly normal. Maybe it's time for Judy Blume to write a sequel to her 1970 classic about training bras and first periods. She could call it Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret's Mother...
...those girls who are now old enough to be Margaret's mother, Blume says she didn't give the poor woman much thought when she wrote the book. Thankfully for that generation of girls--and now their daughters--Blume's main concern was Margaret...
...Bush's blueprint is the Margaret H. Cone Head Start Center in Dallas, where kindergartners' verbal scores rocketed 20% on standardized exams after the center adopted a language-centered curriculum. But this formula, slowly set in motion by a 1998 federal law, could be difficult to clone nationwide: average per pupil spending for Head Start is slightly more than $5,000, vs. more than $7,000 at the corporate-backed Cone Center. Even if Congress okays the move from HHS to the Education Department (President Jimmy Carter tried - and failed - to do the same), the change of responsibility will...