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With Deutsche Telekom posting a record €24.5 billion loss for the first three-quarters of the year, just about the only thing going smoothly in Germany's economy right now is music sales. A savage single satirizing Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, The Tax Song, soared toward No. 1, selling over 300,000 copies since its release. The song is part of a wave of sharp criticism that the government has faced since announcing a series of tax increases and benefit cuts only weeks after the general election. Last week members of the Green Party, who are in coalition...
Thankfully, many college presidents recognize this reality. University of North Carolina Chancellor James Moeser expressed this concern most plainly. “I am happy to sign this statement,” he said. “However, in the wake of Sept. 11, there have also been acts of violence and intimidation directed at Muslim students and Arabs. I would be happier if this statement were more inclusive.” Moeser was not alone in his concern. From Boston College to Duke University, presidents from across the country filed their dissent. One of the original framers...
...clear the distribution of cash, according to Israeli intelligence sources. - By Jamil Hamad, Aharon Klein and Matt Rees/Jerusalem. EUROPE More Fudge Down On The Farm The Franco-German alliance at the heart of the E.U. has some life in it yet. Meeting at an E.U. summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and French President Jacques Chirac seemed to clear the way for the E.U.'s enlargement by limiting growth in spending on the Union's farm subsidies to 1% a year from 2007 to 2013. But the deal, which was cut with British Prime Minister Tony Blair...
Like Edison, Chancellor Beacon has less flexibility in the five schools it operates in Philadelphia than it had in previous projects: it must work with unions, a district bureaucracy and students who weren't specially recruited for its schools. But unlike the other two for-profit companies, Chancellor Beacon has been slow to roll out changes, instead beginning the year by studying the problem through teacher surveys, classroom visits and student test scores. In coming weeks the company plans to convene a parent round table, introduce new math and reading curricula and step up training for teachers. "There are things...
...hope, of course, is that Chancellor Beacon's efforts will translate into academic gains for Shaliah, a bubbly Bs-and-Cs student, as well as for the Shoemaker pupils performing below grade level, whom Chancellor Beacon plans to target aggressively with personalized assignments and weekly monitoring of classwork and homework. The Denmarks like this cautious approach but also have some immediate concerns. Mom Tanya wants new textbooks; the ones Shaliah has are torn and marked up, and she's stillwaiting for a science book. Denmark would also like to see the discipline code strictly enforced in the sprawling, sometimes rowdy...