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...headmistress and senior-school headmaster last year, the London Dulwich shipped out an acting headmaster to replace them. There's no sign of Dulwich dialing back on its overseas expansion. The franchise owners - an education-management firm linked to Dulwich, London, by alumnus and two-time Thailand Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun - will open two more schools in China: a junior school in Suzhou in 2007 and an upper-school joint venture with a leading Chinese high school in Beijing in 2008. Dulwich has plans for India, too. The trend has caught on: Shrewsbury School has a three-year-old affiliate...
Directed by Anand TuckerBuena Vista Pictures2 STARSA couple weeks ago, I caught the preview for “Shopgirl” and was pretty much sold on the spot. It looked pretty and quirky and thoughtful—perfect way to spend an evening. Besides, Steve Martin in a movie adaptation of a book he wrote? Two hours of alone time with Claire Danes and her supernaturally perfect hair? Jason Schwartzman (“I Heart Huckabees”), period? Going. My admiration for the trailer made me forget that my family’s book version...
...Even though nearly all of Thailand's 6 million Muslims live in the south, popular support for a separate state is not strong. The region's high voter turnout of more than 70% in the February general election suggests that few southerners want independence, NRC chairman Anand noted last week. Yet this is no cause for complacency, with unidentified militants growing more sophisticated in the planning and execution of their attacks, and perhaps drawing inspiration-if not yet direct support-from the global jihadi movement. A "conspiracy of silence" surrounds the militants, says Zachary Abuza, a terrorism expert with...
...badly does the United Nations need reform? A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have...
...Anand Vaishnav of the Globe, Beth Potier of the Harvard Gazette and the Times’ Karen Arenson came to the education beat from different backgrounds in journalism...