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As 44.3 million students settle down to another school year, a growing number are finding-and responding to-a new demand for excellence in the classroom. More required courses and tougher graduation requirements. No-frills curriculums featuring basic skills. Old-fashioned homework and computer literacy. Rigor without the customary mortis...
One thick-aired Thursday morning in Manhattan, Charlie Garcia picked up ten dead paupers from the morgue at Bellevue Hospital. All the dead were adults, so they were in adult pine coffins, which cost the city $32.90 each. The price includes a tar-paper lining and a handful of zinc...
Arnold, beard quivering, bored in with a recital of disaster. "Mr. President, you have the us the largest tax increase in the U.S. history . . . the Soviets get the wheat situation the Americans get the shaft. We have a Tylenol taxing situation . . . and we have a Reagan-mortis setting in to...
Dear Wife: Rigor mortis.
Reported Clark: "In a single one-hour period, I saw four dead bodies in the Sakaew camp. One was lying in the muddy track that runs down the middle of the camp, covered by a blanket. Nobody paid any attention to it. Another was that of a woman who was...