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...stinging critique of French education. He spoke with Time's James Graff in Pitte's office. How many of the 26,000 students at the Sorbonne are really students? Between 10 and 15% of them are false students who enroll to get social security and a student ID card. But the 23,000 or 24,000 others are still twice too many: many of them aren't really made for this kind of study. They rapidly fail within a year, maybe two. That's the real catastrophe: we end up selecting students through failure, but we don't dare...
...Tesco is pursuing a carefully thought-out plan of attack, which will be executed by Tim Mason, Tesco's marketing director since 1995 and a leading figure in its bull run. Mason was the driving force behind Tesco's hugely successful Clubcard, Britain's first modern supermarket-loyalty card...
...practice to charge different prices for cash and credit, some gas stations are knocking a few cents off each gallon for customers willing to pay with paper, not plastic. That's because as the price of gas has soared, so has the amount of money that stations pay credit-card companies, which take about 2-3% of each sale charged. Since drivers are quick to defect to another station to save just a penny or two, owners are slow to raise prices to cover their increased costs--and at times even lose money when a customer charges a fill...
...stake in the first question. Six years ago in a book I wrote called Bowling Alone, I argued that the fabric of American communities has frayed badly since the mid-1960s. I traced plummeting membership in PTAs, unions and clubs of all sorts; long-term declines in blood donations, card games and charity; and drops of 40% to 60% in dinner parties, civic meetings, family suppers, picnics and, yes, league bowling...
...This is the first Sidekick that can play MP3s. You drag tracks to the included 64MB MiniSD card (you can always buy a larger one), then stick the card into the Sidekick and in an instant they're all displayed, categorized by artist, album or song title. It plays MP3s, but nothing you bought on iTunes or a Windows-powered music service. Still, I was startled by the rich sound of its single buried speaker when I tried out the Rolling Stones' dynamic "Moonlight Mile." I let the song play and jumped back to check my e-mail...