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...conceded. On the morning of the second debate, Ailes got a call at 6:45 from Bush saying that he wanted to see him at 8. When Ailes arrived, Bush was already going over his briefing papers. Ailes gave him a "pepper" drill, rapid-fire questions and answers to test Bush's reflexes and the shape of his answers...
...taste test. East and West Coast eggs cooked identically and tasted the same in such preparations as scrambled eggs and omelets, in which whites and yolks were blended. The yolks made equally good mayonnaise when - whipped with salad oil. However, there was a mild difference in flavor in boiled, poached and fried preparations in which cooked yolks and whites remained separate. The East Coast yolks had an airier, dairy taste -- perhaps because they were a bit fresher and had not traveled...
...move up in the new Administration. Yet Bush has more personal friends and acquaintances than any other political figure in recent memory, and members of his well-tuned campaign staff understandably expect good government jobs. How Bush resolves the O'Hare-style gridlock over appointments will be an early test of his administrative skills...
...sponsored survey of 200 teenagers, less than half could identify Daniel Ortega (President of Nicaragua) and two-thirds were ignorant of Chernobyl (one guessed it was Cher's real name). Five years after A Nation at Risk prompted a flurry of reform, average scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) have risen 11 points. Still, as recently as last spring, former Secretary of Education William Bennett gave U.S. schools an overall grade of no better than a C or a C-plus. To the teaching establishment, and teachers' unions in particular, he issued a sharp rebuke: "You're standing...
...test case of the new system is the English Department, where one associate professor was denied tenure last week and another is under consideration for promotion. Some English professors say that Associate Professor of English Joseph A. Boone was denied tenure at least in part because the department's senior faculty still held to the old attitudes that had formed around the Graustein system...