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Scrapbook 59 Minutes Would Be Fine By Us Did'ja ever wonder what happens to pompous curmudgeons who get paid millions of dollars to sound off in "humor" segments on TV newsmagazine shows for...
...But the rate at which they fail, it turns out, can't be reliably determined from the three-part series in the Kansas City Star...
...Math scores among the two groups were basically the same...
...Students in their middle years," the report suggests, "have found it difficult to adjust when moving from a public school to a private school...
...Addressing the group in January, Rooney said the news business would be better off if it were controlled by a "quasi-government body," as opposed to the greedhead executives obsessed with turning a buck to garner ratings (which helps them pay the selfless newshounds on 60 Minutes, where the average correspondent pulls down seven figures annually...
...College graduates with an interest in international affairs, a strong command of the English language, computer/Internet skills, and preferably some editorial experience should send a résumé and two brief writing samples to: Managing Editor, The National Interest, 1112 16th Street, NW, Suite 540, Washington, DC 20036...
...And in an age when school safety is on the minds of parents and politicians alike, 60 percent of private-school parents said they were "very satisfied" with school safety, while only 20 percent of public-school parents said the same...
...Reading scores were statistically similar between the two groups...
...This would be good for news," Rooney said...
...A new report from Harvard University's Program on Education Policy and Governance provides mostly good news for the burgeoning movement to give privately funded tuition vouchers to students who would otherwise attend horrifically underperforming public schools...
...Allen has put Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx and Peter Sellers in that category...
...But more misleading was its claim that priests are dying of AIDS at a rate "four times that of the general population...
...The Truth About Priests and AIDS The Kansas City Star made a huge splash in late January with an exclusive survey of Catholic priests, purporting to show an epidemic of AIDS cutting a swath through the clergy, which presumably makes a mockery of the church's practice of priestly celibacy...
...The study points out that "46 percent of private-school parents gave their school an 'A,' as compared to 15 percent of public-school parents...
...The one-world principle—every effort man has made, or will make, to bring the world together in unity—plays into the hands of the Antichrist...
...Help Wanted The National Interest is looking for an assistant editor...
...Yes," the school's website states...
...The Great Divide Bob Jones University last week clarified its reasons for forbidding interracial dating: "Is there a Bible principle upon which the university's interracial dating stance is founded...
...but considerably higher in private school than in public school for students in grades 6-8, 20 percent as compared to 3 percent...
...Better still, it might put an end to the success of unfunny TV "humorists," not that we're mentioning any names...
...Perhaps the answer is discipline...
...Parents, on the other hand, are thrilled...
...Glad they cleared that up...
...In addition to Chaplin and W.C...
...Scrapbook 59 Minutes Would Be Fine By Us Did'ja ever wonder what happens to pompous curmudgeons who get paid millions of dollars to sound off in "humor" segments on TV newsmagazine shows for several decades after they've ceased being funny...
...As a result . . . the people were scattered and the races were polarized...
...During his speech, Rooney did trip over one good idea...
...After seven months in their new schools, second- through fifth-grade D.C...
...What accounts for the differences in performance between the age groups...
...This was the soundbite that made its way into everyone else's headlines and TV news reports...
...But he stipulated that he'd gladly drop to a quarter of his salary, if he could find just one network executive that "was dedicated to news instead of money...
...To begin with, the paper's sample was not statistically valid, which it at least acknowledged in a sidebar (only 27 percent responded to its survey, which was mailed to some 3,000 priests...
...Well, if you're Andy Rooney, you get invited to New York's Overseas Press Club of America, there to browbeat aspiring young journalists on the corrosive influence of money in network news programming...
...Fields, Mr...
...Rooney conceded that when his contract ends, he'll try to gouge his employers for "twice as much as I'm making now...
...A Lesson on Education Reform Though still in its early stages, the Washington Scholarship Fund, a pioneering program of private assistance to enable poor children in Washington, D.C., to attend private schools, has received its first outside assessment...
...He said he'd like to see Nielsen devise a way to rate television shows not by the number of viewers, but by the collective IQ of the audience...
...The report is obviously preliminary, but it strongly suggests that students should be exposed to a solid academic environment as early as possible...
...Sixth- through eighth-grade private-school students, however, scored lower on reading tests than public-school students...
...But as the Statistical Assessment Service points out in its February newsletter (see www.stats.org), "an appropriate comparison group for priests is surely not the general population, which includes women and children, but rather adult males," whose AIDS-related death rate is precisely the same, 4 per 10,000, that the Star projected for priests...
...At the Tower of Babel, God used language to disrupt man's plans for a one-world government...
...That way, they could hire 20 more Rooneys, fearless in tackling the day's great sociopolitical conundrums, like, "Which is older, the slinky or the hula hoop...
...One thing is clear: God wanted a divided world, not a federal-ized world...
...Not to Mention Myself Correction of the week, from the Feb...
...Thus, "whereas younger students attending private schools are more likely than public-school students to say students are proud to attend my school, the opposite results are attained for students in the middle years...
...It might put an end to the success of such mindless shows as Who Wants to be a Millionaire...
...In other words, the older kids are bummed out that they're going to tougher schools than the ones they left...
...19 International Herald Tribune: "An article in some editions Friday about a lawsuit in Israel filed by the heirs of Charlie Chaplin misstated Woody Allen's assessment of the number of comic geniuses of the past century...
...students who received the scholarships are scoring modestly better on standardized math tests than their public-school peers...
...Priests, of course, like all people, sometimes scandalously fail to live up to their solemn vows...
...According to the Harvard researchers, "Suspension rates reported by parents for younger students are similar in private and public schools...
...There's a headline you don't see too often, "Priests: A Lot Like Other Men...
...Guess George W. Bush's message—"I'm a uniter, not a divider"—didn't change many hearts...
...If the educrats keep dragging their feet and avoid real reform, students will pay the price...
Vol. 5 • March 2000 • No. 25
