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Rick G. Bauer, a graduate of the DivinitySchool, once led college recruitment in the Bostonarea for the Church. Rank in the Church was linkedto the ability to draw in more people, Bauer says,comparing the group to a sales corporation. "Themore widgets you sell, the more people you canconvert, the higher in the organization youbecome," he says...
This month, however, state directors of his U.W.S.A.--hired and paid by the national headquarters in Dallas--began organizing public meetings at the county level, ostensibly to canvass the group's rank and file, as well as anyone else who cares to attend, on whether they think formation of a new party is in the national interest. In spirit, the ploy resembles Perot's 1992 appeal for public guidance on whether to run for President...
...years after the landmark federal study ``A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform'' warned darkly of the ``rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,'' we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation, that is, whose 13-year-olds have average math skills that rank below those in 14 other developed countries, according to one 1991 study. We are a nation whose college professors complain that before they can teach the classics, they must teach the basics. And while nearly all American adults can read and write at a basic level, according...
...presidency. One by one, conservative leaders, including 25 of 29 current Cabinet members, deserted Chirac for Balladur. The defections need not be fatal for Chirac: he still claims the support of 240 of the R.P.R.'s 350 Senators and Deputies and appears to have the majority of the Gaullist rank and file on his side. But with Balladur enjoying far broader support from the center, the Prime Minister's 2-to-1 lead in the polls is formidable...
...bureaucrats and the conservative older generation. He continues to display an amazing talent for survival, weathering near universal vilification for his role in the 1989 Tiananmen massacre, which Deng backed but Li implemented. He also seems to have recovered from a heart attack last year to resume a front- rank position. Yet if Tiananmen is re-evaluated after Deng dies -- as it almost certainly will be -- the blame may fall...