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...Republicans who seem too eager to overhaul a 70-year-old program that dispenses checks to a sixth of the population. If this were a Clinton proposal, he might have the Nixon-goes-to-China credentials to do it. But Bush offering to fix Social Security is more like McGovern-to-Havana...
...limbs always on the move, the comic timing of a vaudeville vet and a voice that can shake the balcony. She burst onto Broadway two seasons ago as the star of Thoroughly Modern Millie; she's even better here, a great singing comedian in the Carol Burnett mold. Maureen McGovern is a little stodgy as the mother, but the whole ensemble--including the men--meshes perfectly. If only the score by Jason Howland had a few decent tunes, Little Women might have been a real banquet. --By Richard Zoglin
...five-year study, conducted by archeologists and chemists working under the direction of Patrick E. McGovern, an expert at the University of Pennsylvania on the history of fermented beverages, identified traces of the brews on shards of pottery excavated from Jiahu in the 1980s. As did the ancients in other parts of the world, the Chinese probably concocted the drinks, using rice, hawthorn fruits, wild grapes and honey, for religious libations. According to Zhang Juzhong, an archeologist at the University of Science and Technology of China, who discovered the shards, Jiahu's residents?who also made the world's earliest...
...staggering blow." GEORGE MCGOVERN, former South Dakota Senator and Democratic presidential candidate, on the defeat of fellow South Dakotan and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle...
...York City, to drop all AP courses four years ago. Last year the Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey decided to drop AP U.S. History. A number of other top private schools, including Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, have always steered clear of AP courses. Myra McGovern, a spokeswoman at the National Association of Independent Schools, discerns "a movement from a small group of independent schools that have said no to AP courses," preferring to offer high-level classes that are more focused, less test-driven and perhaps more engaging. "Learning is about having a passion," observes McGovern...