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Bush's charges may sound like workaday campaign rhetoric, but he has a point. He has a plan for comprehensive school reform--flexibility and local control coupled with high standards and consequences for failure--and Gore, so far, does not. Gore gets part of the equation right--he backs statewide standards and testing--but comes up short on the issue of holding schools accountable for student performance. During his time as Vice President, the Education Department has done little to reward schools that flourish and nothing to sanction schools that persistently fail. And Gore remains fuzzy on the subject today...
...This is different from being a Nieman, which is kind of a professional retreat, because it has a lot more student interaction that I'm really excited about," Fulwood said. "For fellows this is a great break because we deal in our workaday lives so much that it is very helpful to be able to step back while meeting young people interested in our areas...
Since I won, I have bragged about "Chunky Joe," my clever, Joycean appropriation of Ben-and-Jerry's semiotics and workaday poesy that got directly at the truth of coffee ice cream blended with white-chocolate flakes, toffee, almonds and chocolate chips. So proud was I that I headed upstate and grabbed a few of the free ice cream coupons from the friend whose name I had used...
...orgasm to shooting a gun, and another turn his suppressed sexual desire into violent action). When it comes time to perform his fantasy, however, Burnham realizes how undesirable it truly is, how misguided he has been. In the end, his solipsistic hedonism is just as unfulfilling as his prior workaday life...
...American politics, but it didn't start with Littleton. It has been in train for many months or maybe longer, and it crosses party lines. A bipartisan consensus--that holy grail of establishmentarians everywhere--has been reached that politicians can no longer concern themselves merely, even primarily, with the workaday stuff of politics: marginal tax rates, crime control, defense expenditures, environmental and labor laws, the international balance of power. Our politicians are transcending politics. They are turning their attention, for better or for worse, to matters of the human heart...