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...Right now, only Woodfork [.380] and Huling are hitting," Carey added. "And Keck and I are in the worst slumps of anybody. I think it's contagious...
...Right now, only Woodfork [.380] and Huling are hitting," Carey added. "And Keck and I are in the worst slumps of anybody. I think it's contagious...
...addition, Fitch says no matter how unfortunate his art projects--the worst probably being the fiberglass bench and fountain combination that Kiely allowed him to display outside of the House--Kiely only wanted to know when he could expect a coffee table...
Before a conflict, the military's job is to plan for the worst case. Yet obviously the minds behind Operation Allied Force didn't really think it would be as bad as this. After more than a week of NATO air raids, Kosovo was still hemorrhaging victims of horror. Ordered out of their homes at gunpoint, often separated from husbands and sons, ethnic Albanian women, children and old people were marched, bused, packed into trains. As the long columns stumbled into neighboring states, Serb soldiers stripped the refugees of passports, identity papers, even license plates to eradicate any trace...
Indeed, Chicago represents a role model for success in mayoral school takeovers. Its public school system, branded the worst in the nation in 1987 by U.S. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, had physically dilapidated schools and churned out students ill-prepared for the work force or college. By the mid-'90s, students were testing some 70% below the national average in reading and math, and nearly 6% were chronically truant. And kids could always plan for a few extra days of summer vacation as teacher strife over pay would invariably grind into a strike...