Word: quiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mumbles, "They're just not popular anymore." At a dinner party in a Baghdad home, the guests do not feel comfortable talking to two visiting Americans without turning the music up loud. Only when they are confident that the music conceals their words from hidden microphones will they quiz the Westerners about U.S. policy in the gulf war. Why did the U.S. stop short of taking Baghdad? they ask. Why didn't George Bush make sure Saddam Hussein was killed? They say the Iraqi people did all they could to overthrow Saddam in the aftermath of the war, but they...
...much as lower the volume of the nonstop CNN in the background while granting interviews to John Wallach, foreign affairs editor of the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau -- not even, Wallach says, for the network's Hollywood Minute. When the name of his country was inadvertently omitted from a news quiz about nations participating in November's Middle East peace talks, Jordan's King Hussein was watching and was so irritated that he had palace officials immediately call CNN's Amman office to complain...
...this movie? Warner Bros. hopes so; the studio (whose parent company also owns TIME) helped foot JFK's $40 million tab. It is also counting on Kevin Costner, America's No. 1 homegrown movie star, to lure audiences to what is at heart a high-voltage civics quiz. Though he doesn't necessarily agree with every notion floated in the film, Costner is happy to play front man for Stone. "Oliver's a patriot," he says. "And I believe with him that the impact of this movie will be liberating. Any part of the truth -- any discussion of what could...
...QUIZ TIME, boys and girls...
Americans quiz their kids more than anyone else in the world: 46 million students from kindergarten through high school are subjected to more than 150 million standardized tests each year. The results of that exercise seem dismal. Only 5% of U.S. high school seniors are deemed able to pursue higher mathematical study. By most measures, students in a variety of industrial countries continue to demonstrate that they know far more than their American peers about basics in history, science and reasoning. Who needs more tests...