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Although this is Bates' first year of doing the show, she is well ahead of the rest of the group. The petite, youthful-looking blond studied tap and ballet all through her school years. She choreographed her college drill team in Arkansas and moved on to a brief stint in modeling while studying for her master's degree in early-childhood education at the University of Central Arkansas. Her stage work stopped when she began teaching kindergarten. But her dance training and modeling experience make her the exception rather than the rule in this production; most of the other cast...
Anticipating criticism for shirking problems at home, the President did not stint on the time he spent talking about them: nearly half of his 47 minutes was given over to domestic affairs. But he offered a list of vague ideas, some that have been kicking around Republican circles for more than a decade. His proposal to turn over unspecified and underfunded federal programs to the states is a cross between Nixon's revenue sharing and Reagan's New Federalism, and solves the problems of neither approach. Proposed middle-class party favors like tax-free family savings accounts and penalty-free...
Kurt M. Campbell, an assistant professor at the Kennedy School who just returned from a stint as special assistant to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, says some advisors are "trying to spur long-term planning, but it is not yet at an advanced level...
When Hedrick Smith finished a three-year reporting stint in the Soviet Union in 1974, he did not even dream of writing this book. In fact, he wrote a very different one: The Russians, a best seller that depicted a Soviet society mired in lies, corruption and fear. He was convinced, he recalls in The New Russians, that "fundamental change was impossible...
...thirtysomething. He pays half of staffers' bus fares but drives to work himself. After a false start in architecture school, he started work as an ad director with East West Journal in Brookline, Mass. He left in 1974 to help start another alternative publication, New Age Journal. After a stint as a Manhattan literary agent, Utne returned to Minneapolis and started the Reader as a newsletter, which soon blossomed into a hefty 128-page digest...