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...when a journalist turns into a politics junkie he will sooner or later start raving and babbling in print about things that only a person who has Been There can possibly understand." -Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail...
While the Barksdales were researching literacy programs in May 1999, a Jackson newspaper wrote about their quest. Richard Thompson, Mississippi's superintendent of education, read the article with keen interest. He needed money to expand a reading program that had shown success in some of the state's schools. He called the Barksdales...
After a lengthy discussion of Thompson's reading reforms, the couple were intrigued. The program targeted kids with reading problems, providing them with extra instruction and involving the parents, many of whom couldn't read. It had been tested on 805 first-grade students in six school districts during the 1998-99 school year, and the results were impressive. At low-performing schools where most first-graders had shown no progress toward reading, a majority now advanced at a normal rate. But, says Thompson, "we couldn't take it to scale. We had all these schools with all this need...
...breakers in some sports, briefly 29. Bay of Fundy phenomenon 30. At some point, a lawyer gives it a rest 32. WW II enlistee 36. They've got a new logo and a new commitment to rider satisfaction 38. Seth begat him 39. Id, it's not 40. Thompson, who's eyeing the Veep spot 41. Cranks up 42. Robert Reich's subj. 43. Killed, biblically speaking 46. "Sail __Ship of State!" 47. J. Fred Muggs, for one 48. A brother of Joltin' Joe 49. Antonym: abbr...
...beggar. But if Bush is confident enough to play it dull, maybe he's cocky enough to taunt his father's ghosts and pull a fast one on the press. Not ideologically dangerous prospects like pro-choicers Pataki and Ridge, or personally dangerous ones like swinging single Fred Thompson. But there are dark horses still...