Word: brotherism
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...When the President's brother swept into office in 1998, the first thing he did was to radically change they way Florida's youngest students were taught by ending social promotion and demanding high-stakes achievement tests. He also eventually got a general merit pay system passed, but its implementation has long been stymied by bureacratic snafus, teacher opposition and a lack of funding. So with only nine months left in his term, the popular governor must now convince state lawmakers of a sweeping vision that includes the nation's first statewide program linking teacher pay directly with students' test...
...ravenous government soldiers pillaging food stocks; and of each side burning whole villages in retaliation for the locals' suspected support for the enemy. "The rebels took my sister into the forest. I never saw her again," says Kabange Mamitshu, 22, bathing at sunrise in the Congo River. Her brother-in-law went in search of his wife and disappeared too. "We found his body in the forests," Mamitshu says. "The Mai Mai had chopped off his head and taken it." She fled with her husband and three children, taking along her now-orphaned infant niece. The refugees have found some...
...Most of the color ink-jet printers do a fine job, though you'll get best results with photo-ink cartridges and photo paper. Some printers have built-in memory-card slots and their own preview screens, allowing you to print photos without a computer. The best names include Brother, Canon, Epson, HP and Lexmark...
...Shield, Nip/Tuck and Rescue Me; the cruelly sarcastic doctor on House; and the castaways of Lost, who include a heroin addict, a torturer and several killers. (Fox's Prison Break is also set among criminals, although it's about a wrongfully imprisoned man and the brother who is trying to spring him from jail.) "Mainstream audiences are now getting comfortable with the fact that there are different kinds of lead characters," says Reilly...
...expect the young men to notice that I don?t stiffen up. But I know they would notice if I did, because I have two younger brothers, aged 19 and 25. Their honey-colored skin, a few shades lighter than mine, and Asian eyes don?t prevent random strangers from viewing them simply as Young Black Men - which they are by about half - and, therefore, potentially dangerous, which they definitely are not. And surely their non-physical traits, like being highly educated and classically trained musicians, get lost amidst the ski jackets and low-riding pants my youngest brother...