Word: standardly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, Harvard stays with standard procedure--taking out recruiting ads in magazines and seeking "contacts" with black coaches and historically minority colleges. These half-hearted efforts allowed for the creation of the situation they are now expected to remedy...
...inquiry into the Democrats' use of issue-advocacy ads to promote the ticket, and the betting inside Justice is that she will ultimately seek an independent counsel. If that happens, officials say, the mother of all IC probes could result, enveloping Clinton and Gore and even Republican standard-bearer BOB DOLE, whose campaign also benefited from issue ads like the ones in question. "In the real world," says a senior Administration hand, "it comes down to the whole ball of wax. No self-respecting independent counsel is going to stop at some artificial line...
...high schools, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. But in Santa Paula, anger at the grouping system had smoldered for decades. "This is a small town that's been run the same way forever," says special-programs teacher Lisa Salas, who went through school on the "standard" track and says she struggled unprepared through college. Her father Robert, a retired investigator for the local district attorney's office, was so angry about his own low-ball education that he ran for and won a seat on the school board. During the campaign, he found that most townspeople agreed...
...take college-prep or honors courses could do so simply by signing up. "I think everybody should be exposed to the good stuff," he says. To ease the transition to the new, detracked environment, principal Antonio Gaitan organized after-school tutoring and Saturday enrichment classes for 700 former standard-track kids. "It's vital to build in curriculum support," Gaitan explains. "You don't just throw kids into the deep water." Have they learned to swim? The early results, at least, are promising. Doomsayers predicted that at least half the student body would flunk out in the new system...
However successful the White House is in making the case that Clinton did not violate the law, Lieberman won't be the last to argue that the President's conduct should be judged by a higher standard. A West Coast Democratic Congressman says he was stunned last week when a six-year-old in his district was told that the lawmaker knew Clinton and asked, "Does he lie to you too?" And White House aides themselves cannot answer the question that most bothers his party now: Is there anything--or anyone--else...