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...Romney’s paternalistic proposal would attempt to involve parents by force; under his plan, children would be excluded from the new all-day kindergartens if their parents were unwilling—or more likely, unable—to attend two days of parenting-skill training. This idea’s degeneracy is made clear by observations almost too simple to escape even Romney himself, namely that parents who live in under-performing school districts often can’t afford to sacrifice two days’ worth of wages and that compulsory presence at parenting school smacks...
Kicking off the all-day event, Director of the IOP Dan Glickman told the 50 first-years in the audience that they should be a “participant, not a spectator” in the world around them...
Whichever city you happen to be in, there's an eerie sense of d?j? vu that descends as you check into your hotel. For there, with deflating inevitability, is the all-day coffee shop and the signature restaurant, the atrium lobby and the noisy bar, all cut from the same international design template. But for everyone suffering from executive-suite ennui, an alternative is at hand: the private club...
...walls of Michaela Pütz's Bonn hairdressing salon hangs her Meisterbrief - the master craftsman's diploma that all German artisans must acquire before they set up their own businesses. The 40-year-old Pütz got hers 12 years ago, by attending six months of all-day classes on business management and crafts law at a cost of more than €12,000. Pütz's 21-year-old apprentice Susan, however, may not need to cram for a master's exam; the qualification, which dates back to the country's medieval guilds and exists nowhere...
...street markets are also a good place to buy gasoline - the dealer sticks a hose in his can, takes a quick suck on the other end to start the flow, and hastily plugs that end into the buyer's can. Going to the gas station could mean an all-day wait...