Word: powers
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...school reforms go, standardized exams certainly have staying power. But the stakes are a good deal higher on the tests of today. As kids head back to class, they'll embark on what some educators have dubbed the Year of the Test, sitting for state exams that determine everything from high school graduation to school-funding bonuses. Not to mention whether your kindergartner will have nap time (schools in Mobile, Ala., have grabbed that time for test prep) and where you'll buy your next home (real estate agents in Arizona and Virginia now tout high scores in school districts...
...along with the power come potential pitfalls. Lawyers are predicting a glut of "cybersmear" libel lawsuits by targets of malicious online gossip. "Companies are not particularly sensitive about someone standing next to a water cooler and griping about someone else," says Blake Bell, a New York lawyer and editor of a website called CyberSecuritiesLaw. "But these messages go out to so many people that they're very concerned." Although the sites give their posters--who generally use pseudonyms--a feeling of anonymity, they're usually not anonymous at all. Faced with a subpoena, most sites will readily divulge a poster...
Freeman's Charlie is a more complicated figure. The Polaroid pictures of Betty he carries take on talismanic power for him, and he keeps referring to her as a Doris Day type, which somewhat oversimplifies her--and also, perhaps, betrays his age and his longing for the more coherent times in which he was raised. He may be a hit man, but he's a cultivated one. He claims to read books and listen to symphonies; he manifestly loathes yet loves the volatile Wesley. This is a great, understated performance, wistful and funny, by a superb actor, and maybe...
...arguing heatedly over whose turn it was to feed the dog. "If kids bicker, are they rivals?" I asked. "Are you asking this because of your siblings or your daughters?" Stewart responded. "They're that loud?" I asked. We both knew the answer. And if it's in my power to prevent another generation of painful memories of a scratched fender, I will...
...right! Al Gore's pick of Senator Joe Lieberman as his running mate is historic [CAMPAIGN 2000, Aug. 21]. This election will validate the maxim "regardless of race, color or creed." Never before have voters been given such power; the Gore-Lieberman ticket paves the way to electing, yes, an African American and, yes, a Hispanic to the highest political office. To minorities, I say, "Wake up. Your future is on the line." It's time. Electing them is just the beginning. LILLIAN KEFALOS Pittsburgh...