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...teachers also need to be better prepared for the next millenium. I propose a new, national, federally-funded one-year program of special instruction--the Teacher Corps--to recruit the best and the brightest to enter teaching, to train them in the latest technologies and methodologies and to provide incentives to teach in underserved areas. We could better train 750,000 teachers over the next 10 years for $9 billion...
...last week--and who didn't, with the Dow off 482 points?--you might perk up after a chat with Stanley Druckenmiller. A six-footer with deep-set eyes and a grin that creeps sideways across his face like a stock ticker, he has been labeled the world's brightest currency trader, an Einstein of the pits. Druckenmiller's paycheck is signed by George Soros, for whom he oversees $22 billion. Uh, make that a little less. Last week Druckenmiller watched helplessly as the Russian debt market vaporized into fiscal neutrinos, taking the last of $2 billion of Soros' Russia...
...history: For more than three decades, something called the Overlap Group, a collaboration of financial-aid officials from the Ivy League and a few other top private colleges, compared notes on scholarship applicants to equalize aid offers and thereby prevent bidding wars over the best and brightest students. Then in the early '90s, the U.S. Justice Department argued that the Overlap Group was essentially engaging in price fixing and forced an end to the program. Now only the government monitors need, through its FAFSA process, and, though the colleges claim their policy is not to award scholarships purely on merit...
...think [development research asks] a fascinating set of questions," she said. "I'm now a member of a team of people that are pulling together some of the brightest minds at Harvard...
...remiss if I were to fail to mention one last symbol of power that I encounter daily on Park Avenue. Each day, as I wade through piles of second class mail, I am beset with magazines from Harvard, Yale and Princeton. The best and brightest of the past few generations are living well and are inundated with mail from their alma maters. Sadly, too many of the Harvard alumni show some sort of interest in me only when they learn that I go to their alma mater. Only then do I cease to be an automaton, only then do they...