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Wanna make George W. Bush smirk? Tell him he's going to get pasted in the presidential debates. Compared with the confident front runner who resisted rote practice sessions before all those primary debates last winter, Bush, now the self-declared underdog, has been drilling like an Olympic athlete for the three debates he faces on Oct. 3, 11 and 17. He has been practicing since May at his ranch, the Governor's mansion and other locations in Austin. Some sessions have included a table and podium and an Al Gore, played by New Hampshire Senator Judd Gregg. A dress...
...star may be too complex, too edgy, too real for mainstream filmmaking's limitations. "Hollywood is probably in many respects not the place for her, as far as I'm concerned," says Kusama. "She could be a huge star. She should be. But she can never just be the rote girlfriend. I hope she'll find more roles than just that. But there are a lot of girlfriend roles out there...
...Wanna make George W. Bush smirk? Tell him he's going to get pasted in the presidential debates. Compared with the confident front-runner who resisted rote practice sessions before all those primary debates last winter, Bush, now the self-declared underdog, has been drilling like an Olympic athlete for the three debates he faces on Oct. 3, 11 and 17. He has been practicing since May at his ranch, at the governor's mansion and at other locations in Austin. Some sessions have included a table and podium and an Al Gore, played by New Hampshire senator Judd Gregg...
...eyes and shouting "Stay out the Bushes!" But his not-so-long-ago terming of Bill, Al and Joe's DLC as "Democrats for the leisure class" hung over the speech, and as he hit the nights'-end pundit circuit Jackson made little effort to let the evening's rote unifiers cancel that old gripe...
...moratorium on the state's testing. After parent protests, Wisconsin shelved its all-or-nothing graduation test; the state now judges students on a portfolio of their work, including test scores, grades and letters of recommendation. Legislators in Massachusetts are considering a similar proposal. Florida has forsaken rote multiple-choice exams in favor of tests with longer essay questions and math problems requiring students to show their work...