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...years ahead of us I have not the slightest doubt that Australians working together will be able to overcome these particular problems." As for the top priorities in his second term, Fraser might be well advised to reprogram the government's dial-in telephone circuitry with a different sort of information. The result, which would be joyfully received by 357,000 out-of-work Australians, could be called dial...
...Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely transferred to another job. Sniffs Royko: "Madigan is a man of deep and abiding faith when it comes to city hall and the things his friends there tell him. He is sort of a born-again payroller...
Poor Reggie-nobody is all that impressed any more. The day is long past when the IQ was revered as some sort of magic number, affixed during childhood as an indelible, immutable badge of mental prowess or dullness. Instead, the whole IQ concept is under suspicion. Many school systems, including those in California and New York City, have abandoned IQ testing altogether. College admissions officers have little use for them. Neither do such competitive organizations as NASA, IBM or Phi Beta Kappa...
Once I began looking for news in areas I wasn't supposed to touch, such as the faculty lounge, I received signals from many adults not to rock the boat. When questioning principles-or principals-I quickly realized how people could be unnerved by that sort of thing...
Deadheads all over the world live and die by the foibles of their adopted group, though most rock fans stop short of this sort of idol worship. Still, the Dead are almost universally recognized as a talented, innovative group that is at its best on the stage, rather than in the studio, where most groups hibernate. In some ways, however, the Dead seem stuck in the debris of the late '60s; their music has the raw, unreconstructed sound of earlier groups, and they retain their oft-publicized position as the high priests of acid. Despite the death by excess...