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Vigilant, ruthless, shrewd, brilliant, pragmatic, Lee imposed his personal vision until he stepped down as Prime Minister in 1990 to become Senior Minister. He still approves important decisions. He believes that Western- style liberal democracy, with its emphasis on individual rights, won't work for most developing countries. "When you...
IT WAS A LANDMARK STUDY IN 1980 THAT FIRST raised U.S. consciousness about the math gap: elementary school students in both Japan and Taiwan rated far ahead of their American counterparts in mathematical skills. The shock -- and an aftershock when a repeat survey in 1984 found the gap still there...
But despite what seems a large emphasis on money, most subterranean virtuosos say the meager cash rewards are not enough to keep them keepin on.
In choosing his top team, Clinton has been guided by three considerations: a quest for ethnic and gender diversity; an emphasis on collegiality; and, in the case of his senior economic assistants, a desire that their selection be perceived calmly by the financial markets, whose skittishness could doom his tenure...
Clinton's economic education began in earnest in late 1991. Facing an electorate immune to campaign promises, Clinton added heft to his diagnosis of the nation's ills with a 15-page paper titled "A Plan for America's Future." With its emphasis on a tax-rate cut for the...