Word: usual
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...course we're hearing in this election season all the usual hand-wringing and exhortations about the state of education in America. But few of the arguments about school choice and vouchers and teachers' unions are new, and none provide a quick fix to our students' performance compared with their peers around the world. Closer to home, we do what we can, which is why back-to-school shopping may be our one truly recession-proof industry. We can drive less when gas prices rise; we can cut back on movies or fancy meals. But we'll never stop filling...
...McCain's coronation in St. Paul, Minn., will be putting "country first," but his aides are not about to apologize for putting victory a close second. They say they would have loved to run a classic McCain campaign, with a series of high-minded town-hall debates and the usual open access, but Barack Obama refused the debates, and the Obama-smitten media decided that the campaign is all about their new darling. "The race is as we found it," says Mark Salter, a close adviser and the co-author of McCain's five books. "We're not going...
...time for politics as usual, or run of the mill politics," Leach added. "We don't need more of the same...
...were informed last weekend by Barack Obama's camp that they had approved our request to interview the candidate for TIME. We were to meet him in Albuquerque, N.M., on Monday afternoon. My flight from Kansas City, via DFW, landed on time Monday morning after three hours of the usual misery. Nothing major: my seat, inches from the fuselage-mounted engine, knocked a couple hundred hertz off my hearing range, and the guy in front of me had reclined his seat so far back I could count his follicles. But I look at it this way: it beats waking...
...dashed from Concourse B to Concourse A, which in Albuquerque is about 11 yards. There, I found the usual mass of irritated, exhausted travelers preparing, after a three-hour delay, to board. They must have wondered why I was smiling. We filed onto the plane - about 120 grumpy people, plus me. I even got an aisle seat, and not next to the bathroom, either...