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Along with quarrels on ideology, perhaps the most intense objections to Bloom's and Hirsch's doctrines come from educators who feel that many of the ideas are out of touch with countrywide classroom realities. Says Ralph Cusick, principal of Chicago's 3,900-pupil, predominantly Hispanic Schurz High School: "What people lose sight of is that we've got to educate everybody -- even the 35 IQs -- and we've got them in school." Last year Schurz also had more than 20 student suicide attempts, with only one counselor to help every 400 youngsters -- not atypical of big-city schools...
...wait! It's Indiana James to the rescue! In Timothy Dalton's interpretation in The Living Daylights, one finds some of the lethal charm of Sean Connery, along with a touch of crabby Harrison Ford. This Bond is as fast on his feet as with his wits; an ironic scowl creases his face; he's battle ready yet war-weary. And in the age of AIDS, even Bond must bend to serial monogamy; this time, for reasons of plot and propriety, he's a one-gal guy. Dalton performed a lot of his own stunts, and he looks great...
...errors began late last month when one of its jets dropped to within 600 ft. of the Pacific Ocean after a pilot accidentally shut off the plane's engines. The following week, on a stormy night in Kentucky, a Delta flight landed in Frankfort when it was supposed to touch down in Lexington. Two days later one of the carrier's L-1011 jumbo jets was off course and reportedly came within 100 ft. of colliding with a Continental 747 over the Atlantic Ocean...
What happens now to Olliemania? Senate Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye asked the question obliquely in his farewell address to North at the conclusion of day six. With perhaps a touch of irony -- it is hard to tell with the dour Senator -- he wished the newly minted hero and his lady well, as they set off into the sunset...
Nevertheless, he waited for a job that wouldallow him "to gain a perspective on politics" and"keep in touch with my colleagues and the issuesof the day." For Thornburgh, the IOP position wasthe perfect job. He even turned down an offer byPresident Reagan to become Director of the FBIbecause "it was a 10-year commitment I wasn'tready to make...