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Until recently, the Chairman of the JCS was little more than a mouthpiece for the lowest common denominator that could be agreed upon by the heads of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. But since the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986, the Chairman has become superior to the individual service chiefs, with his own staff of 1,600 and enhanced status and authority. "Goldwater-Nichols," says Lawrence Korb, director of public-policy education at the Brookings Institution, "changed the Pentagon like nothing else in recent memory...
...Garfunkel was going to break up," Garfunkel says. "We just thought we'd take a break from each other." "Going out solo was my decision," Simon says now. "But I was nervous about it." The record company had a case of the corporate faints: Simon was busting up an act whose last record had sold 10 million copies. But the boys were having problems. Garfunkel was getting absorbed in acting, while Paul was taking his first turns down various lightly charted musical byways. "There was stuff I wanted to do anyway that Artie wouldn't have done," says Simon...
Investigation of the alleged crime has sometimes evoked scenes from The Three Faces of Eve. During a one-day pretrial hearing, three of Sarah's 21 personalities were sworn in separately. In each instance, she closed her eyes, paused, then opened them to speak and act as different people. At one point, Sarah was given a glass of water by the judge. Later another personality did not remember having taken the drink...
...main issues before the Wisconsin court are whether Sarah was mentally ill at the time of the sexual act, and whether she was able to appraise Peterson's conduct. A third issue is whether Peterson knew of Sarah's condition; it is a crime in Wisconsin to engage in sexual intercourse with a person you believe to be mentally ill and who cannot assess your conduct...
...last March that the verbal section of the SAT measures test-savvy, not reading ability. He found that 172 college students correctly answered, on average, 38% of the multiple-choice comprehension questions without even reading the test selections. Many colleges, notably in the Midwest, are turning to the rival ACT exam, put out by the American College Testing Program. That 3-hr. battery of exams claims to measure student skills in four curriculum areas: English, reading, science reasoning and math...