Word: topicalism
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...theme that has characterized recent educational policy is test-based accountability. It’s becoming a hotter and hotter topic every day,” he says...
...Levy declined to talk about the controversial new TALK magazine piece about her daughter, saying that she hadn't yet read the just-published article. The story, among other things, chronicles the Levy's conversations with Condit in the days after her daughter's disappearance - a topic Levy wouldn't discuss...
...wouldn't be overly critical of Ellis' confabulations in his classroom when he taught about the Vietnam War. I would suspect that he merely animated his topic a bit. True, it's embarrassing for Ellis--and he ought not to have done it--but as a mark of scholastic duplicity, it gets a 1 on a scale of 1 to 10. DOUG URBANUS Ben Lomond, Calif...
...Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate took its swing at the topic, and unfamiliar fault lines divided longtime GOP allies. Noted abortion foe Bill Frist of Tennessee joined Utah?s Orrin Hatch in his support for federal funding, while Sam Brownback of Kansas stepped in line behind Majority Leader Trent Lott, voicing his opposition to earmarking federal funds for the controversial research...
...searching seems ridiculously tardy. Chandra Levy has been missing since April 30, and to put it baldly, physical evidence is probably in short supply by now. But from a media standpoint, a slow accumulation of angles and subplots is most desirable - the news-consuming public wants a mystery, a topic of conversation, not a data dump...