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Almost 12 years after the landmark federal study ``A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform'' warned darkly of the ``rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,'' we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation, that is, whose 13-year-olds have average math skills that rank below those in 14 other developed countries, according to one 1991 study. We are a nation whose college professors complain that before they can teach the classics, they must teach the basics. And while nearly all American adults can read and write at a basic level, according...
...Chechen war are cloudy, the means the Russians have used leave little room for ambiguity. Their indiscriminate bombings of civilian populations are clear violations of the rules of war and the dictates of decency. It is these humanitarian violations more than anything else that have turned the tide of world opinion against the Russian invasion. Moreover, the Russian people seem to have little stomach for the war, which has been greatly unpopular since its initiation almost a month...
...York Times' reliance on Enquirer reporting than I am by the Enquirer," says Jim Newton, who is covering the O.J. trial for the Los Angeles Times. Marvin Kalb, director of the Shorenstein Center on Press and Politics at Harvard University, sees the brouhaha as a sign that "the tide is running in the direction of lowest-common-denominator journalism, and that is very...
...Seldom except in books do the dying utter memorable words, see visions, or depart with beatified countenances, and those who have sped many parting souls know that to most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep. As Beth had hoped, 'the tide went out easily,' and in the dark hour before the dawn, on the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last, with no farewell but one loving look, one little sigh...
...less attention than the others, but Pitts found that a slightly rounder cut helped soften Bush's lean face. When Bush lost the l992 election, Milt was chagrined. There had to be some other factor, he reckoned, worrying that Clinton's mod, over-the-ears hair had turned the tide, though Pitts was convinced Clinton's hair was not short enough and was too pointed on the top. He would have helped Clinton, claiming that "my scissors are neither Republican nor Democrat," but by then he was hopelessly pegged as a Republican journeyman. He gathered up his tools and returned...