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...senior Bradley aide conceded that a poor performance today would likely spell the end of the former New Jersey senator's candidacy...
...appeal of the spell-it-out approach is growing because it seems to impact overall performance. Schools that have used these rigid curriculums have seen spikes in sagging test scores, especially among disadvantaged kids. Parents, anxious about the rising importance of standardized tests, like the guarantee that all students will be exposed to a uniform set of skills. And politicians have begun touting the idea on the campaign trail. Al Gore's education agenda cites the benefits of a "core curriculum"; George W. Bush recently spoke at a school that has one. "Teachers don't need creativity," says Diane Ravitch...
...good 'ole U.S.A. was part of it. Despite our forefathers' glorious emancipation from the grips of the imperialists, there are a few who remain loyal--Tories within our very midst. Maryland native Frederick Karl Kepner Du Puy '03 and New Yorker Carlos Zepeda '03 stand among those who spell 'color' with a 'u' and call a 'line' a 'queue...
Though Joerg Haider's resignation from the top post in the right-wing Freedom party may help lift some of the psychic baggage other member E.U. nations have toward Vienna, it doesn't spell any real change in Austria's political landscape. After all, Haider was not a minister in the coalition government of which the Freedom party is the junior member, and he remains governor of the Carinthia province. Nor has his political viability waned; immediately after she ascended to the role of party head, Freedom party cabinet member Susanne Riess-Passer said she wished Haider hadn't stepped...
NAME: Aaron ("Spell This") Spelling OCCUPATION: Producer of anti-intellectual TV shows BEST PUNCH: Launched a $100 million lawsuit against Guccione, claiming the masthead listing made it seem as though he approved of and endorsed the Biel pictures