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Kathlynn Jacobs, a 24-year veteran of the Baltimore public schools, vividly remembers one gangly, precocious first-grader, who had been in day care since she was a baby. Both her parents worked, and her life had been rigidly scheduled to accommodate them. "She was the smartest one in the class," says Jacobs, "and she was having a hard day." Jacobs asked her what was wrong. "I'm tired of school," replied the world-weary seven-year-old. "I've been to school all my life...
Getting many of the smartest students interested in manufacturing will require a broad recognition that the U.S. does not live by services alone. The job of changing career goals will have to start with parents, high school guidance counselors and university administrators. Americans cannot go on increasing their standard of living without learning once again how to roll up their sleeves and make the products they want to consume...
...Dukakis, the Wake Forest wordfest may have been the moment he badly needed. Given his limited emotional range and his earnest, smartest-boy-in- the-class presentation, his command of the debate was his strongest performance since the Atlanta Convention. If the exchange, watched by 100 million viewers, does not help him rebound in the polls, his political outlook is cloudy, since he is unlikely to surpass this performance again. For Bush, with a well-orchestrated campaign and far less to lose, it may be enough that he survived without permanent damage. If the Vice President made no new converts...
Bush scored on a sharp question aimed at Dukakis' being considered "passionless, technocratic, the smartest clerk in the world." The Governor cited issues on which he said he cared deeply, including children who can't afford to go to college, people without medical insurance, civil rights and affirmative action. He conceded that "I may be a little calmer than some" about such matters because "I seek consensus." Bush adroitly declared that "I salute him for his passion," but insisted that it was misdirected at causes favored by "far-out liberals...
...where melodrama meets metaphor. Romero, best known for Night of the Living Dead 20 years ago, has grown up here, grown past Hitchcock homages to fix on the war of mind and body that everyone ceaselessly wages. While he's at it, he has made the smartest dark fantasy since David Cronenberg's 1986 update of The Fly and the best monkey movie since the original King Kong...