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...former engineering professor with an IQ estimated at 180. He had been an invaluable political asset, rescuing Bush's faltering campaign by masterminding a victory in the New Hampshire primary. But he lacked any experience in the clannish world of Washington and was so relentlessly abrasive that one wag dubbed him "Morton Downey Jr. with a Ph.D." The smart money gave him at most a year...
...most political of the six objectives calls for U.S. students to rank first, worldwide, in math and science. The "moonshot goal," as one White House wag dubbed it, is a rare admission by Bush that America is falling behind its foreign competitors, especially the Japanese. The evidence of failure is abundant. In a recent international survey, American 13-year-olds finished last in math and nearly last in science. Bush stiffened his proposal by requesting, in his 1991 budget, a $100 million increase in the education programs of the National Science Foundation and a $230 million grant to help states...
...only really likable characters are the son Will, his best friend Wag and another youth named Spencer, who is obsessed with the disappearance of the dinosaurs. "In the boy's bedroom were hundreds of dinosaur models . . . An inflated Rhamphorhynchus dangled from the ceiling fixture. ('It means "prow beak," ' Spencer said.)" Spencer is showing his dinosaurs to a hungry-eyed art-gallery owner named Haveabud, who, in a truly sinister scene watched by Will, seduces him during a trip to Florida. There is quite a bit of sex in Beattieland, most of it adulterous and joyless...
...ideologically rigid Gang of Elders, as the group was dubbed. Such fears were buttressed by renewed government denunciations of "bourgeois liberalization," the phrase that presaged a conservative crackdown two years ago. Some Chinese found a good deal of irony in the awkward situation. "The 80-year-olds," commented one wag, "are calling meetings of 70-year-olds to decide which 60-year-olds should retire...
...audience for each commercial). That is why, for example, Marriott since June has opened 14 branches of Allie's in San Diego (where San'wiches is also being tested). Only after such saturation will Chairman J.W. Marriott Jr. convert more of his Bob's Big Boys, as well as Wag's and Howard Johnsons, to the new theme...