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...Time for Kid Stuff TIME's cover headline asked "Are We Pushing Our Kids Too Hard?" [March 27]. My answer is no, not really. While the developed nations were enjoying the fruits of the postindustrial revolution throughout the greater part of the 20th century, Asians had to struggle to live from hand to mouth. Education has been the prime moving force for the emergence of Asian economic prowess. We have to excel to ensure our mobility. What then is a bit of extra pushing during childhood? The only problem is that almost every child is being pressured, regardless...
...Which is how Marie-Jos? de Speville and Karl-Heinz Horner moved from the Seychelles to Joffreville, a small mountain village 30 km from the northerly port of Diego Suarez. Joffreville was founded as a retreat for French officers in the early 20th century, and the couple have transformed Le Domaine de Fontenay, a rambling French colonial house with huge verandas, into a relaxed nine-bedroom hotel...
...Queen of Spain, or Robert Schenck, who as Minister to the Court of St. James taught the British to play draw poker and then cheated them out of millions. All were political figures, not professional diplomats. The U.S. did not have a professional diplomatic corps until the early 20th century. Many Americans remain ambivalent about it, in contrast to other professions like the military. It is hard to imagine the American people tolerating a high number of four-star generals and admirals being named from the ranks of campaign contributors, even in peacetime...
Museums often group modern art (late 19th-century to 1970) and contemporary art together, shifting the focus from new artists to a general understanding of art created in the 20th century...
...have lived and written some 300 years after the Bard himself, but never mind that. According to director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06, Synge’s “Playboy” overcomes its heavy use of dialect and antiquated setting—early 20th-century Ireland—to achieve a certain universality and applicability, even for modern audiences...