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...test, mandated by the Texas legislature in 1984 as part of a broad program to improve the state's public schools, was not terribly difficult. (Sample item: spotting the misspelled word "discused" in a paragraph.) But teachers reacted with outrage. "It's the wrong instrument to measure my ability," said Mary Lee Reyna, a first-grade teacher in San Antonio. "If I am incompetent, you'd think they would have found me out in 23 years. The only way you can tell if I'm a competent teacher is to come see me in my classroom." Harold Massey, executive director...
...more. Chances have been taken, gambles won. Seidelman, 33, notes, "Desperately Seeking Susan had a female director, a female producer, a female writer, two female stars and a female executive, Barbara Boyle, who helped us get the go-ahead. If the film had bombed, it would have presented a broad target. Failure is a luxury not yet afforded to women." But Susan succeeded, and its momentum helped reduce the risk factor for hiring first-time women directors. Randa Haines, 41, won an Emmy for the TV movie Something About Amelia, but was untested in feature films until she was tapped...
...intellectual interests. Visiting the Scriabin Museum, the master pianist recalled that his parents had been advised by Scriabin to make sure that their son "knows art and literature, history and philosophy. To be a great artist he must know more than music." Then he said to Brelis, "Without a broad knowledge, I should never have known the clear thoughts and feelings I experience playing the piano...
...seen the cranes many times, but at day's end, peering through the torn burlap curtain of a small wooden blind, he marvels anew at the squadrons of cranes landing in the Platte like parachutists dropping from the sky. Dark descends, and a full moon magically rises, throwing a broad moon-beam across both river and cranes. "What's the fascination?" Sublett murmurs. With the cries of the cranes filling the air, he answers his own question. "I guess it's that they've been coming here for millenniums, and they're still coming here. I guess we haven...
...failure by Congress and the President to meet those tar gets means that the Comptroller, who heads the General Accounting Office, must calculate and order the necessary cuts under a specified formula. The twelve Congressmen, all of whom voted against the bill, argued that this gave to the Comptroller broad powers of the purse that the Constitution does not permit Congress to relinquish...