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Which makes Secretary of Defense Frank Charles Carlucci III the man on the spot -- and, simultaneously and somewhat surprisingly, the only rising star in the twilight of the Reagan Administration. Carlucci, 57, was appointed last fall to what looked like a caretaker's post, to pad out what was already the longest resume in Washington (positions in seven different agencies -- "one ahead of Elliot Richardson," he jokes). But acting like a caretaker is not in the nature of Carlucci, a far from faceless bureaucrat who boasts that in all his jobs "I don't think anybody has accused...
Some testing authorities have tried to put a good face on the results. They emphasize that the lowest-scoring pupils improved somewhat over the 13 years of the study. Says Gregory Anrig, president of Educational Testing Service, of which NAEP is an arm: "The good news is that basics are back and we have raised the bottom." But they acknowledge that the bottom remains much farther down than it ought to be, the middle has not budged since 1972, and neither...
...presidency, he was back to his specialty, this time amid the onion domes of Moscow. Strolling around Red Square, talking to priests, writers, students and refuseniks, toasting his hosts at gala dinners, the President was unmistakably campaigning -- primarily on behalf of American- style human rights but also, and somewhat confusingly, on behalf of his opposite number and sometime adversary, the General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party...
...then, Iacocca had acquired American Motors, Lamborghini and part of Maserati. He reports that his management team resisted the $1.2 billion AMC purchase, but he asserted his power of paterfamilias. Says he: "I heard everybody out, and then I overruled them." Iacocca's acquisitiveness seems somewhat at odds with his opinion of what is wrong with corporate America: merger mania, for one thing. He excoriates raiders and corporate chiefs who wage expensive takeover battles, leaving companies bloodied and indebted. He also faults political leaders for shortsighted partisanship: "All we do is finger-point." He particularly chides President Reagan, whom...
...basketball court. "I was better at Spanish, he was better at basketball," Tarver recalls. The two talked about forming a band and Tarver taught his friend to play bass guitar. At the end of their sophomore year, both joined WHRB's rock department, described by one somewhat disenchanted member as "a collection of misfits and degenerates who share an almost psychotic knowledge of obscure music." There, Tarver says, he "learned about music from the point of view of a DJ--one of the lower life forms...