Word: turned
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...were at week's end on the verge of stripping a $279 billion education bill of all its national-test money. That forced the Administration to scramble for a compromise in the Senate; to save the testing money in that version of the bill, the White House agreed to turn over control of the tests to an independent agency. And the tests might still get axed when the two chambers reconcile their respective bills next month. "Americans have asked us for common-sense education ideas," says Republican Bill Goodling of Pennsylvania, the leader of the House antitesting insurgents, "not poorly...
Police investigators say some witnesses report hearing Diana repeat, "Oh, my God." But the fervent silence of the most trustworthy witnesses has allowed myths to grow. Mohammed al Fayed claims that Diana's last "instructions" were relayed to him and that he in turn passed them on to Diana's sister Sarah. But neither he nor the Spencers are saying more. Last week the Paris daily Le Parisien quoted an unnamed doctor as saying Diana's last words, as an oxygen mask was put over her face, were "Leave me alone." But this "witness" is also the one who incorrectly...
...fact, a SYDNEY POITIER, and she's coming to a TV screen near you sometime next year. Sydney, 23, is Sidney's youngest daughter. (He has six, three of whom are actresses.) When he was cast in the Showtime movie Free of Eden as a former schoolteacher turned big-shot businessman, he asked the producers to look at his daughter's audition tape for a small part. "He called me at the record company where I was working as an assistant and told me they wanted me for the lead," says Poitier fille. "I said, 'What are you talking about...
...fascinating story is what happened in between to turn popular anger so swiftly from one target to another. It is the story of one of the greatest acts of misdirection since Houdini--pulled off, amazingly enough, by the very tabloids that were originally so under siege...
...worked. The easy explanation is that when it turned out the limo driver was drunk, the public's anger at the press declined. Yes, but the anger could then just have dissipated. The tabloids were not about to let that happen. Sensing a turn in public mood, they fed and amplified it mercilessly--and with such success that by the end of the week, on the eve of Diana's funeral, the mob roared and the Queen caved...