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...time, grieving parents seemed like an immovable political force. They agitated for answers and, having lost what meant most to them, appeared unwilling to compromise. But local authorities began blocking access to the sites of demolished schools where parents and journalists would gather. The government offered compensation to parents, hush money that reportedly ran as high as $14,000 in exchange for a promise to keep quiet. Those that didn't acquiesce faced official intimidation. Lu says police frequently questioned him and demanded that he cease his calls for justice. The only shop with a fax in his village...
...someone who'll never lose empathy for the poor or someone who thinks success is within anyone's reach? Well, I'd like to think more the former than the latter. But you have to go back and ask, how was that change possible in my life? And the answer is that I was blessed to have a mother who understood that education was a liberator and that you get out of life what you put into it. And so one of the things that really concern me is the long tale of underachievement in New Zealand's education system...
...might as well be honest: if we are to combat the scourge of modern piracy, then force must be used against force. When Tripoli demanded tribute from the U.S. in return for not capturing Americans at sea, Thomas Jefferson noted, "The style of the demand admitted but one answer. I sent a small squadron of frigates into the Mediterranean." Right then; right...
...managers would negotiate a deal and get the courts to bless it," says David Skeel, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Debt's Dominion: A History of Bankruptcy Law in America. "It was a very flexible reorganization process." It was also a uniquely American answer to business failure. The private sector took the lead. Reinvention--and rebirth--was the goal. (See pictures of the global financial crisis...
...Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy? After a decade passed without sight or sound of the thing, music fans started cracking the obvious joke: the Chinese will have democracy before record stores get Chinese Democracy. That joke is itself now an antique - record stores! - but we finally have an answer. On Nov. 23, Guns N' Roses will release its fifth album of original material, 17 years after its last. Put another way, Miley Cyrus will soon get to hear the first new Guns N' Roses record of her lifetime. (Listen to Chinese Democracy...