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At times, Weiner's gruffness comes off as a strained attempt to stay in the kind of character his book's structure requires, but his skill as a narrator outweighs this mannerism. Geography may not always offer the elegant packaging of virtuoso travel writers like Paul Theroux or Jan Morris...
The Surge's Shaky Success To say the Surge is working is akin to saying we found WMD in Iraq and New Orleans has been rebuilt [Feb. 11]. The measure of success for the surge was to have been progress in passing legislation in Iraq. Despite the expenditure of billions...
Simmons similarly criticized the tendency of the committee to laud the rate of students passing the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) without looking at the proportionately low number of students who receive high proficiency scores.
“We should celebrate, but I think using the state standard and looking at passing as opposed to advanced level makes us guilty of low aim,” she said.
The question is: What took her so long? Biographers have traced Hillary Clinton's beefs about press bias back more than 30 years, to Bill Clinton's first, failed, campaign for Congress, when reporters could have been more diligent in knocking down false rumors about Clinton's anti-Vietnam activities...