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...compared with that of the rest of the world. One conclusion: the deficiency of America's average students is a major reason for the woeful U.S. performance in the TIMSS exams. Too many schools, the report says, "have sacrificed the attainments of more average students in an attempt to bolster the performance of better students." As a result, American eighth- and 12th-graders on the whole lag below the international average in math and are not even within earshot of top countries like Japan, South Korea and Singapore. "The other nations of the world don't subdivide children...
...following week, she had new lawyers, Plato Cacheris and Jacob Stein, who brought with them years of experience, hosts of connections and a chance for a new emotional climate. Their first task was damage control. They needed to bolster her credibility with Starr and improve Starr's image with her. On June 2 they had their first meeting with Starr's team, conducted in total privacy, to convince the Starr camp that unlike the uncorkable Ginsburg, they were serious about doing this deal quietly and without publicity. That meeting stayed secret. "We didn't want any ceremony," says Stein. "That...
...suggestions that they are still wallowing in a gigantic pool of bad bank loans and stagnant economic numbers. They point to a plethora of rescue plans and billions of dollars earmarked to jolt the economy awake. Granted, nothing seems to have worked yet. But the U.S. intervention to bolster the value of the yen last month and a stream of editorials decrying Japan's lack of resolve have spurred Tokyo to further action. Just last week, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced the establishment of a national bank to enable Japan to close insolvent banks while protecting their honest borrowers...
...pushed by sympathetic nations such as France, Russia and China, is trying to map out an end to Iraq sanctions; the Clinton administration would prefer to keep the heat on a while longer. And the VX report, which Iraq disputes, certainly seems to bolster the latter case. Asked about the leaked report, State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said the finding "demonstrates how important it is for sanctions to remain in place until Iraq cooperates with UNSCOM." Which is wonk-speak for "We told...
Personal security is a factor in this new, wide-open world. A growing number of companies are taking extra steps to ensure their employees' safety as they log those mega-miles. Don Hubbard, national director of security for Coopers & Lybrand, saw the need to bolster the company's international travel-security policy after an executive was trapped in a Mexico City restaurant by three gunmen, robbed and released. Hubbard contracted the services of an international advisory service, accessible to all 19,000 of the firm's employees through the Internet. Hubbard can also send out "all-hands e-mails," with...