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Graham is intent on saving time for his family, time he rarely had for them when he was traveling at least half the year. Each day becomes precious. "It doesn't make me feel any different, turning 75, than when I turned 45," he muses. "But when I see pictures of my 19 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren, I know some time has passed. I let days like that slip by and try to forget it. I'm not looking backward. I'm looking to the future...
...Perot, and now we've gone and given him a whole lot more oxygen." For a while on Friday, some Clinton aides were suggesting, hopefully, that maybe negotiations on time and place would fail and no debate would come off. But Clinton and Perot's reciprocal dares left precious little wiggle room, and finally a deal was struck: a single, 90-min. Gore-Perot debate on King's show, Tuesday night...
...encourage gifted students, says a new report released by the U.S. Department of Education. They lag behind the gifted of other countries because they often go unchallenged in the classroom, where more attention is paid to slow or average students. The U.S. is "squandering one of its most precious resources," the report says...
...time the classical liberals invented toleration as the alternative to persecution for heresy. I may disapprove of what you believe about God, they said, but your belief doesn't "pick my pocket or break my leg." This is not good enough for today's liberals. They want my precious sense of self-esteem to be respected. They demand that others be sensitive to me--what am I saying?--that I be sensitive to others. They insist that the government be given the task of insuring that this happens. They believe, as Cass Sunstein, an expert witness on the other side...
Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures Per Nykrog said McDonald has the expertise to teach a variety of courses on literature from the 18th century through the present. "We will get a very precious colleague," said Nykrog, who served on the search committee in charge of McDonald's selection...