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Texas is a national leader in high-stakes testing, having instituted a statewide high school exit exam in 1985 at the urging of a committee chaired by Ross Perot. Since then scores have climbed. In 1993, 51% of Texas 10th-graders passed all three sections of the TAAS--math, reading, writing--on the first try. This year 67% did. (Students get eight tries over three years...
...soap opera General Hospital will outlast Medicare. If permitted, 59% of Xers would opt out of Medicare and save on their own. Of any adult generation, they have the weakest attachment to political parties, and in 1992 Gen Xers cast a higher percentage of votes for Ross Perot than older adults did. "We have a libertarian streak," says Thau. "We grew up in a period with one instance of government malfeasance and ineptitude after another, from Watergate to Iran-contra to the explosion of the Challenger to Whitewater. We believe government can't be trusted to do anything right...
...four years, the Vice President has been shown at his finest when putting himself in the line of fire for his President--whether it was breaking a tie vote in Congress to rescue Clinton's economic program in 1993, or demolishing Ross Perot in a TV duel to save the North American Free Trade Agreement. But now Clinton is looking toward a spot in the history books, and Gore toward one at the top of the Democratic ticket in 2000. To bolster his legacy, Clinton must make choices that could infuriate the most loyal and active Democrats, the ones whose...
...York Senator Alfonse M. D'Amato: "Having Al D'Amato chair an ethics inquiry is like having Ross Perot heading up a mental health task force...
...this time, of course, she was no longer a typical voter. Thanks to her fame as a TIME cover subject--and her potential to become a high-profile convert--she found herself engaged in long phone conversations with the head of Dole's state campaign several nights' running. The Perot people sent her a book. The Clintonites never called...