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Here lies one of the more counterintuitive developments of the standardized-testing movement: Though some critics complain that teachers are forced to dumb down their lessons and "teach to the test," some schools are offering more challenging course work as a way of engaging students. In the past three years, scores of elementary schools in high-stakes testing states such as Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts have added Latin programs. Says Allen Griffith, a member of the Fairfax City school board: "If we're trying to improve English skills, teaching Latin is an awfully effective, proved method...
Size has always mattered in the NFL, but coaches have only recently caught on to the idea that quarterbacks can and should be big too--real big. Culpepper has muscled his way to the front of a new class of big young QBs that includes Cleveland's Tim Couch, Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb, Tampa Bay's Shaun King and Cincinnati's Akili Smith--all players who can throw a football like Joe Montana and run it like Fran Tarkenton...
...hasn't helped matters. Neither has a promotional campaign that makes that fabric-softener bear look cutting edge. "I agree, the advertising needs to be updated," says Crawford. "It would have been easy for Revlon to capitalize on my evolution...They might have used me in a more modern way." Especially if she were...
...writes books that land like cluster bombs, sparing no one. He sees universities spending gazillions on new stadiums and practice facilities while stiffing undergraduate education, and he papers academia's ivory towers with the evidence. It's been a virtuous crusade, but Sperber made one blasphemous mistake along the way. In May he called for I.U. to fire radioactive, chair-tossing basketball coach Bobby Knight...
...star also acquits himself quite nicely in the film, which is notable not because it co-stars Helen Hunt (what doesn't co-star Helen Hunt these days?), but because it's Gibson's first foray into romantic comedy. "They haven't naturally come my way," he says when asked why he hasn't worked in this genre before. "I wouldn't be the first guy to choose for something like this." Actually, he was at the top of the wish lists of director Nancy Meyers and Paramount chairman Sherry Lansing. Meyers (who penned the 1991 Father of the Bride...