In "Politics and the English Language," George Orwell wrote, "When one watches some tired hack on the platform repeating the familiar phrases...one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy...." George Orwell was lucky. He never had to listen to Margaret Spellings, Secretary of Education.
She famously said, "I talk about No Child Left Behind like Ivory Soap: It's 99.9 percent pure. There's not much needed in the way...
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