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WASHINGTON—It’s been a great summer. Best of my life. I’ve been to London, New York, Las Vegas, Vermont, Virginia, and Atlantic City. I spent the bulk of my time interning in Washington, and my mind is full of images of touring the West Wing, sitting in the studio for a taping of Crossfire, riding roller coasters with my chief-of-staff, and pacing the halls of Congress at midnight. But amongst these experiences and memories, some of which I will cram into this piece, some of which will never find their...
...last couple of years. Hell, I’m the theatre editor. And this summer I got to see shows on the West End of London, in the Kennedy Center in Washington, at an outdoor amphitheatre in the D.C. area, on and off-Broadway, at a barn in Vermont (featuring my blockmate, Samuel H. Perwin ’04, who makes a dashing Harold Hill), and at a regional theatre on Long Island. And what was the number one theatrical experience of the summer? Well, I’ll be writing a column on that in the fall, so this...
...Evil Empire. This theory blew up in our faces in August 1991, when the Soviet leadership's old guard made a last, despairing attempt to turn back time by seizing power in the name of the State Committee on the State of Emergency. That news found me in Vermont, on vacation. After a night spent in a broom cupboard, site of the only phone in our rented house, I drove through a wild storm to board a flight back to Moscow. On a nearly empty Lufthansa flight out of Frankfurt I met up with a number of colleagues, somewhat apprehensive...
Koretz has studied or worked as a consultant on the assessment systems of several states, including the alternative assessment “portfolio” program in Vermont that includes no testing...
...them does. Last May, Nevada's Democratic Senator Harry Reid succeeded in persuading Vermont Senator Jim Jeffords to bolt the Republican Party. Jeffords' switch gave Democrats control of the Senate--and promoted Reid from minority to majority whip, a perch he is currently trying to use to block the Bush Administration from putting the nuclear dump in his state. "This is wrong what they're trying to do," insists Reid. Last May, majority leader Tom Daschle flew to Las Vegas to speak at a fund raiser for Reid. "As long as we're in the majority," Daschle vowed, "[the Yucca...