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...only major changes in public education in the second half of the century have been demographic in nature. The national debate over methods of instruction in reading continues unabated. Sometime back, a savvy old primary teacher summed it up; she said the only thing new in education is Scotch tape. DANIEL A. WELCH Retired School Administrator Rochester Hills, Mich...
...senior vice president at Roper, the polling firm, says he and others are advising clients that the way to get a slice of the $120 billion spent by twentysomethings is to stress tradition as much as individualism. Thus a company like Dewar's draws new drinkers to its Scotch by marketing it not as as an alternative choice but as your father's drink, a classic hallmark of growing up. "The value of the good old days has gone up a lot," he says...
...most pressing and fascinating questions facing historians today. For many years this question was a no-brainer, as country and western music were thought to have been invented in the hills of Tennessee on June 13, 1834, at around a quarter to five. At this time, a Scotch-Irish immigrant realized in a stroke of backwoods genius that the banjo, up until then a farming implement used to discipline unruly chickens, could also be used to produce a twangy tune. (Historians had agreed that if, at that moment, the inventor could have known that his new invention would eventually lead...
...written drama or stand-up comedy--many of his phrases would sound droll if read aloud in a performance. Delbanco, a colleague of Ballard's, writes, had had a marriage that "had gone on the rocks because of the rocks in his glass. The ones that he covered with Scotch...
...short list for many high-profile ceo jobs that become available. He spurned an offer to head IBM before Louis Gerstner took that turnaround job in 1993. More recently, Fisher was widely viewed as a possible successor to AT&T chairman Robert Allen. Perhaps partly to scotch speculation that he might be leaving, Fisher agreed to lead Kodak until December 2000 and was rewarded with options to buy 2 million shares at an exercise price of some $90 per share--now far under water. "My job here is only half done," he acknowledges...