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...They are frank about wanting the money: with their operating costs increasing and the fees they charge parents rising faster than household incomes, something has to give. For Dulwich's headmaster, Graham Able, the franchises represent "a significant contribution" toward a goal of reinstating, within 15 years, the needs-blind admission policy that set Dulwich apart in the 1960s and '70s. Famous brands in new locations bring other benefits. Aside from their direct revenue, Dulwich's schools in China provide the London school with free advertising abroad. While the overall number of foreign students enrolling in Britain's public schools...
TIMOTHY NAFTALI Author of Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism I think the media have not played a helpful role. I'm convinced the media have been an unwitting handmaiden to those who play upon people's fears. If there is a shred of possibility of a dirty-bomb attack, the media will report the possibility without knowing the odds. The media want to be fair to both sides, but they should attempt to get at reality. I'm a threat skeptic. The organizations we're facing now aren't military-like. They're much less organized...
...anguished Congolese. There is a heroism about the images, but there is also a romantic artistry that blunts the pain, and they suggest too strongly the presence of attentive helpers. We Americans know far too little about Africa and pay too little attention. But would we turn so blind an eye to the death, in less than a decade, of 6% of our own population at the hands of warring parties? I hope not. DOUG WATSON Shawnee, Okla...
...pregnant. The teen-aged brother has embraced strict religious orthodoxy and keeps interrupting the smooth flow of social events on this Sabbath evening by taping over the light switches and hiding everyone's cell phones; there is to be no electronic interference with true belief. Grandpa is a blind veteran of various Israeli wars and keeps a loaded gun handy in case the enemy decides to storm their apartment. Mom (the divine Norma Aleandro) desperately pretends that everyone is normal, and Dad is simply AWOL...
...medical students' learning about the frustrations of the chronically ill. It is clear to anyone with a lick of common sense that doctors who are aware of patients' whole experience are able to provide better care and also save money. The HMO-dominated, profit-driven medical community is blind to the long-term costs of not resolving patients' health issues because it is so overly focused on the cost of a single test...