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...salaries of those who are left. Campaign manager Terry Nelson is working without pay. The campaign is narrowly refocusing itself on the early states of Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina--though the fact that McCain is cutting back his field operations in those states will make the challenge steeper. He is also considering accepting presidential matching funds, a move that could give him $6 million in much needed funds but also require him to become the only big name in the GOP field to agree to live under the campaign finance law's spending limits...
Torturous golf is ingrained in Oakmont's storied 104-year history. W.C. Fownes, son of club founder H.C. Fownes, a Pittsburgh industrialist who designed the course to offer a steeper challenge to Steel City players, once roared, "A shot poorly played should be a shot irrevocably lost." A course superintendent once called W.C. Fownes to inform him that golf legend Sam Snead had hit a tee shot past a bunker during a practice round. The next day, Snead struck a shot to the same spot--and found himself in a sand trap that had been installed overnight...
...decline of science and social studies is often much steeper in schools struggling to end a record of failure. At Arizona Desert Elementary in San Luis, Ariz., students spend three hours of their 6 1/2-hr. day on literacy and 90 min. on arithmetic. Science is no longer taught as a stand-alone subject. "We had to find ways to embed it within the content of reading, writing and math," says principal Rafael Sanchez, with some regret. Social studies is handled the same way. The payoff for this laser-like attention to reading and math: the school went from failing...
...decade later that improvement has come at a high price, literally. Sure, hundreds of millions of dollars in research money have poured in and Louisville now welcomes an incoming student class with much higher test scores, but those fortunate enough to be accepted must pay a much steeper tuition; in just the last three years, the annual in-state undergraduate tuition has grown 40%, to $6,252 this academic year. "We have had to raise tuition each of the last four or five years," says University of Louisville president James Ramsey. "And in most of those years, there has been...
...Still, the pugnacious Blagojevich, a former Golden Gloves boxer, has a few important advantages. Topinka, 62, currently the only statewide G.O.P. office holder, has a brusque, sometimes cartoonish style that has made her uphill battle even steeper. Though the treasurer, a social moderate, clinched enough votes in March to snatch the nomination in the bloody, five-person circular firing squad otherwise known as the G.O.P. primary, her campaign quickly lost steam. In a September poll of 600 likely voters, Blagojevich led Topinka 45% to 33%. "She just hasn't been able to capitalize on the negatives associated with the governor...