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...Consultants are unavoidable, given the complexity of modern communications. But I have a vague hope that the most talented politicians now realize that the public has come to understand what market-tested language sounds like, and that there is a demand for leadership, as opposed to the regurgitation of carefully massaged nostrums. To be sure, the old tricks-the negative ads, the insipid photo ops-still work, but only in the absence of an alternative. What might that...
...would envy. First of all, there's plenty of work. Youth unemployment is about 23% in France, and almost 1 in 10 school leavers does not have a permanent job five years after taking the baccalaureate. In Yekaterinburg, being out of work is a luxury few can afford. The demand for energetic young people is so high that ads for the best jobs scroll along the bottom of prime-time programs on local TV. A free newspaper with job openings, the Urals Work Weekly, would be as thick as the yellow pages if such a phone book existed. Russia hasn...
Hodgman's humor requires a high cultural IQ. "I don't consider what I do comedy qua comedy," he says. "It's something much weirder." Nevertheless, his weirdness is in high demand, with gigs on NPR's This American Life and editing the Times Magazine's new "Funny Pages" feature--in addition to The Daily Show and the sequel to Expertise he's writing. "Like Tintin, I'm not one to turn down a good adventure," says Hodgman. "Even when my drunken sailor companion begs me to just stay home in the château for once...
...curiosity, exchange, and understanding with people previously ignored, and that is precisely the purpose of education. Study abroad can be improved by more integration with host schools, home-stays, and increased funding. Such expansion and improvement, not the degradation of international education, is precisely what American education and competitiveness demand. H. CLAY PELL ’05 Providence, R.I. April...
...enough to satisfy the angry protesters. Processions of public buses painted with the word "mourning" have circulated around the capital, while protesters held signs with pictures of masked men shooting children that read "Venezuela is the country of impunity." Journalists marched to the Attorney General's office to demand justice on Thursday after a photographer for a Caracas newspaper was shot and killed on his way to cover the protests on Wednesday...