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...reasonably intelligent parents can homeschool" their children, Micki Colfax says. "It takes a lot of patience...Having a child with you 24-hours-a-day seems to take a lot of time, but to us it just seemed to be the norm," she says...
...reversed it. His high approval rating -- 64% last week, 5 points above Dwight Eisenhower's in December 1960 -- is only one crude measure of that change. Most Americans are more sanguine about their lot and their leaders than they were in 1980. Government paralysis is no longer the norm...
THOSE successes may have gone to Kennedy's head. It is the congressional norm for representatives with the most seniority to win seats on the popular committees, and Kennedy was completely out of line to try for a spot which the more senior Atkins properly deserved. The fact that Joe jeopardized his state's seat on one of the most powerful panels in Washington for the sake of his own political aggrandizement indicates that he suffers from the worst kind of Kennedyitis--a swelling of the ego which hurts constituents...
...resume-stuffers race obviously goes to Quincy House, which offered 14 would-be Marshals. But they are very different from their Eliot colleagues--while an Eliot candidates seems to collect titles effortlessly, Quincy residents achieve theirs through sheer nervous energy. Undergraduate Council and model political organizations are the norm in Quincy...
...them and I'm not foreign." He belongs, instead, to the Estonian school of TV and radio reporters, sharpened by competition with Western broadcasting from nearby Finland. Ott believes the art of interviewing was lost during the Brezhnev years, when prepared answers to prepared questions became the norm. With Television Acquaintance he has set about reviving the genre and giving it a personal spin. As he bluntly puts it, "An interview is not a speech...