Word: reade
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...verbal part of the test, 640 on the math.) It turns out Bush was an underachiever. He didn't do well in class not because he couldn't, but because he couldn't be bothered. The fear that continues to fester about Bush--as we read about his periodic foreign-policy gaffes and then hear him blithely assert that what he doesn't know he can learn from his advisers--is that at 53 he has the same cavalier attitude toward knowledge that he had at 21: he could learn what he needs to know, but he doesn't seem...
Asgharzadeh, who read out the first incendiary communique on the siege that sickened the world, has come a long way in 20 years, and he is not the only one. Many of his fellow militants have also mellowed and are slipping out of the shadows of revolutionary Iran to acknowledge their roles, admit to a few regrets and argue that their cause is finally maturing. All three of the original planners of the siege, it turns out, are now key figures in moderate President Mohammed Khatami's government. Asgharzadeh smiles at the thought of a hostage taker becoming a democrat...
...Foley relates how he overcame broken bones, a lost ear and a worthy opponent named "the Rock" to win the World Wrestling Federation belt last year. The book's swift sales--this is only its second week on the Times's list--offer incontrovertible proof that wrestling fans can read a work longer than a tattoo...
...Angeles Times by interoffice e-mail. Otis Chandler, the former publisher who shepherded the paper to nine Pulitzer Prizes, was back--in spirit if not in fact. Chandler, who retired as publisher in 1980, sent his message directly to reporters, to the dismay of the newspaper's management. Read aloud as more than 100 staff members gathered in the newsroom, his words were stunningly direct. His successors, he said, had been "unbelievably stupid" and caused "the most serious single threat to the future" of the paper his family had bought in 1882. People gasped in surprise, then applauded...
...troubles are not over. Downing further rankled Times journalists, already reeling from editorial cutbacks, when she called the newsroom a "velvet coffin," implying that more deadwood needed to be eliminated. When several editors were later chastised for letting Chandler's note be read to the open newsroom, some Times journalists talked of staging a one-day byline strike. "Downing is public enemy No. 1," said a reporter. "There's a bloodlust in the newsroom." Which probably means there will be more juicy headlines about the unsettled Times...