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...fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...
...around. Inside, a janitor is cleaning up the blood where a man hit his head after slipping. Co-workers stand nervously outside the door, waiting for news. O'Connor tries to figure out what happened while the paramedics carry the man to the ambulance--right out an alarmed emergency exit. O'Connor finishes his interviews with the alarm buzzing loudly in the background...
...Texas test: that it is simply too easy. Its format, almost entirely multiple choice, is less demanding than many of the newfangled state exams, which require students to show their work on math problems and to answer essay questions. The writing segment of the Texas high school exit exam last spring consisted of just 40 multiple-choice grammar questions and a letter-writing assignment. A 1998 report by Harvard researcher Sandra Stotsky, commissioned by the Tax Research Association, concluded that the reading test declined in complexity in each of the previous three years. State officials deny the test has been...
...criticism of the test: that it is simply too easy. Its format, almost entirely multiple choice, is less demanding than many of the newfangled state exams, which require students to show their work on math problems and to answer essay questions. The writing segment of the Texas high school exit exam last spring consisted of just 40 multiple-choice grammar questions and a letter-writing assignment. A 1998 report by Harvard researcher Sandra Stotsky, commissioned by the Tax Research Association, concluded that the reading test declined in complexity in each of the previous three years. State officials deny the test...
...melodramatic mystery in his childhood as the illegitimate son of a man whose identity he didn't know? No. Guinness's art is beyond the reach of psychoanalysis or stargazing. His 1985 autobiography, Blessings in Disguise, begins with these words: "Enter EGO from the wings, pursued by fiends. Exit...