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...that the United States placed second to last in the advanced mathematics division of the exam. American students taking pre-calculus, calculus or Advanced Placement calculus scored 59 points below the international average, and only 6 points above Austria, the lowest scoring nation in the advanced division. William H. Schmidt, an educational statistician quoted in the New York Times gets the message across: "Even the very small percentage of students taking Advanced Placement courses are not among the world's best...
...love to tell you what Tonya has to say about all this, but her sometime agent, David Hans Schmidt, said she would accept no less than $10,000 for an interview because she's flat broke and "all she has is her infamy." Schmidt did offer to arrange an interview with another client, Harding's ex-husband, for just "a couple, two, three thousand dollars...
Tonya is no day at the beach, says Schmidt. Look up dysfunction in the dictionary, "and you'll see her spinning a triple Axel next to it." He says she has been through two husbands, four boyfriends, houses, boats, Ninja bikes and monster trucks since the Olympics. "There's a real trailer-park mentality there...
...more than 42,000, from strip malls on rural interstates to the gaudy Forum Shops in Las Vegas. That's 20 sq. ft. of shopping-center space for every man, woman and child in the nation. "We just don't need any more traditional shopping, period," says Craig Schmidt, a retail-industry analyst at Merrill Lynch...
...just say the similarities are hard to ignore. "They have it down beat for beat," says Letterman's executive producer, Rob Burnett, who has seen Schmidt's show. Not that anyone is getting ready to call in the lawyers. "It makes us laugh," says Burnett. "It's like watching I Love Lucy in Spanish." And, of course, there's that old bit about imitation being the sincerest form of flattery. Dave may be having his problems in America, but no one is doing Jay Leno in Slovakia...