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Thomas believes Bobby's is "the story of an unpromising boy who died as he was becoming a great man." Perhaps. Thomas every now and then falls into Camelot prose, the elegiac, mock-heroic blather about bright promise and fate and doom and how the gods have it in for the Kennedys--a literary form of which Arthur Schlesinger Jr. is a founding master. And at times, Thomas slips into dreamy, unthinking partisanship: "Americans were afraid in 1968, and they eventually voted their fears and elected Richard Nixon." But perhaps Americans simply decided that the Democrats, with their ruinous, unwinnable...
...provide poor children with the same test-prep materials that give their wealthier peers an edge on standardized tests such as the SAT. But two websites launched last week have beaten him to it. Students who go to Number2.com or testu.com can read test-taking tips, practice on mock SAT questions and receive instant feedback on their strengths and weaknesses, all free...
...provide poor children with the same test-prep materials that give their wealthier peers an edge on standardized tests such as the SAT. But two web sites launched last week have beaten him to it. Students who go to Number2.com or testu.com can read test-taking tips, practice on mock SAT questions and receive instant feedback on their strengths and weaknesses, all free...
...photos as reference for a particular part of the story and I was just amazed sometimes at the bleakness and lack of thought that went into these settings. Human beings: they are living out the grand dramas of their lives in these horrible areas that just seem to mock them at every turn. The modern world seems to make fun of people in a lot of ways. Of course that's part of the book...
...exploiting the primal emotions of childhood, in this case sibling rivalry. Danielle, 15, can't understand why her parents and friends find her pesky little brother Peter, 9, so endearing. He's always trying to horn in on her fun. When Danielle and a chum are practicing a mock-hypnotism act for a school skit, Peter--natch--insists that Danielle hypnotize him. Uh-oh. Not only does little brother go into a trance and come out of it with an alarming loss of memory, but also strange voices start emanating from the basement, calling Peter's name. What has Danielle...