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...incapacitating the dissidents, capitalism's seductiveness is discouraging others from raising their fists. Many Chinese intellectuals who would have been in the forefront of protest five years ago are busily making money in business or even government jobs. Liberal economist Cao Siyuan of Beijing runs a consultancy linking bankrupt enterprises with interested investors...
...addition, question affirmative action in principle--if it aims at giving all those of socio-economically deprived, underprivileged, or educationally less rigorous backgrounds the equal opportunity to succeed. That goes for poor African-Americans from Watts or Brownsville; but it should also apply to destitute whites from bankrupt mining communties in rural West Virginia; Vietnamese boat people; inner-city Koreans; Chinese political refugees and any other group whose social and economic backgrounds deprive them of the same opportunities as the sons and daughters of Exeter or Andover...
...statewide average. Yet the money produced a student body that failed to meet the most rudimentary state standards, as measured in a battery of tests that gauge functional skills in reading, math, writing and citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being waged from New Jersey...
...founded on the very same principles and beliefs that men in the Promise Keepers movement hold true today [NATION, Oct. 6]. They recognize the need for strong male role models. These fathers and leaders have stepped forward to reintroduce our morally bankrupt nation to God. STEPHANIE SMITH Sacramento, Calif...
...denials--that the new millionaires received their start-up capital from the Communist Party, the KGB or other giants of the old system. In any event their companies did well during the privatization of the Russian economy in the early '90s. Perhaps their biggest break came in 1995. Nearly bankrupt, the government offered shares in some of the country's biggest concerns, like oil and mineral resources. The oligarchs gained control of one enterprise after another at huge discounts from their real value...