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...terrorist captured during the attack, and two others arrested in the following days, has allowed police to quickly unravel the plot and characters. Officials say most of the bombers were undereducated, unemployed and without hope of escaping Sidi Moumen's dilapidated, crowded, refuse-strewn streets - oases of despair where joblessness exceeds the estimated national rate of 20% and illiteracy runs over 50%. Such conditions are easily exploited by radical Islamist groups like the outlawed Salafia Jihadia and its offshoot Assirat al Moustaqim (Straight Path), which officials say recruited the bombers. "That's a major contrast with Islamist networks...
...into the A.N.C. and later served as his trusted adviser during Mandela's presidency, spent a quarter-century with Mandela in the Robben Island prison. The son of a construction worker and a maid, he inspired reverence among inmates with his teachings and strength. "It was not possible to despair," he said after his release. "The spirit of the people outside was too great...
...about her time in the jungle and to honor her husband, "who got me through the ordeal." Her critics, she believes, did not read the book, in which she qualifies collusion talk as what she heard from her captors and other hostages, or what she thought in moments of despair. She says the book shows "what rats the Abu Sayyaf were," and that they "are to blame for the whole thing," no matter who shot her husband. Otherwise, she asserts, "I told the story...
...many teachers in our public schools, urban and suburban, who have deep knowledge of subject matter and of how to engage youngsters, most are in despair over the limits put on them by the mindless work demanded by these high-stakes tests. Many of those who are less well prepared for teaching use this diminished curriculum as a crutch. They do not seek further help, nor does anyone in a supervisory capacity offer help of any significant kind. Again, high-stakes tests prevent the development of high standards...
According to Chase, a system of intellectual despair combined with tests that bordered on torture combined to fashion the Unabomber...