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...This wasn't Karr's first shot at teaching Thai kids. Saint Joseph's Convent, an elite elementary and high school a short drive from the Christian college - where parents who drive late-model BMWs shell out $7,400 a semester to get their daughters educated - had hired Karr for a two- or three- week trial period earlier this year as a grade-school English teacher. "We were just seeing if he passed our standards," a senior school official who declined to be identified told TIME. "He didn't, so I fired him." She recalled that officials at Bangkok Christian...
...society, rallying against the exploitation of ANWR and overdevelopment. But senior year comes along, and they are increasingly aware of the realities of what it takes to lead the good life after college. They are hired off by investment banking firms and invest in brand new gas-guzzling BMWs...
...phone action. It announced a deal with Hewlett-Packard and Nokia to broadcast radio content to mobile phones. Clear Channel, the nation's largest AM/FM network, also plans to offer content over handsets later this year. And digital radio is expected to be offered in luxury autos such as BMWs this fall...
That’s because issues of class remain much more explicit around the world than in the ambition-driven U.S. At Harvard, the ever-present gap between the prepschoolers in their BMWs and the aid recipients who worry about paying off loans remains under the surface. But just because we’re the leader in financial aid programs doesn’t mean we can’t do more to change our culture and push forward an agenda of equal opportunity (one way to start would be to give financial aid students complete funding for study abroad...
...Wheels High court and supreme court judges ended a six-day strike after accepting a government offer to replace their aging Toyota Corollas with a fleet of new four-wheel-drive vehicles. The judges, who complained that their old cars needed constant maintenance, had originally demanded Mercedes or BMWs. Their new Nissan Terranos will cost about $60,000 apiece; per capita GDP is around...