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...tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future,'' we remain a nation at risk. We are a nation, that is, whose 13-year-olds have average math skills that rank below those in 14 other developed countries, according to one 1991 study. We are a nation whose college professors complain that before they can teach the classics, they must teach the basics. And while nearly all American adults can read and write at a basic level, according to a 1993 Educational Testing Service study, fewer than half can use a bus schedule or accurately record car-maintenance information...
...Jack has found other reasons to dislike Yardley. He has noticed that Ward does all the hard digging for facts: He wanted to have it exactly right. Yardley hangs around waiting to put his stylish spin on what Ward uncovers. "We get into too much detail," Jack hears Yardley complain at one point. "It ruins the narrative flow." Yardley comes up with a crucial and convenient piece of the puzzle...
Four striking teachers from Belmont, Mass., met with a University official yesterday to complain that Harvard professors with children in Belmont schools have crossed picket lines to help keep schools open...
...eminent political leader in America. As the new Republican * rulers of Congress converge on Washington to begin their reign this week, they will find the Democrats still in shock from their repudiation in the November elections -- and grumbling that they are leaderless to boot. President Clinton, they complain, has yet to frame any coherent strategy for dealing with a Republican-controlled Congress. Said a senior Administration official: "Part of the strategy, to the extent there is a strategy, is to wait and see what Gingrich and company do." The President's pre-Christmas promise of a middle-class tax break...
...where the spies go depends on where the policymakers want to send them. Critics complain that the White House has provided little direction. The CIA launched a charm offensive immediately after Clinton was elected, sending its top analysts to Arkansas to brief the new President and letting him know that they were staying in one of Little Rock's cheapest motels. But Clinton has kept his distance from the agency. Woolsey complained that he was cut out of the White House inner circle. "People want the intelligence community to shrink, but at the same time they have more and more...