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Shawn's friends are not alone in their exodus. Of the 315 Shelbyville students who showed up for the first day of high school four years ago, only 215 are expected to graduate. The 100 others have simply melted away, dropping out in a slow, steady bleed that has left the town wondering how it could have let down so many of its kids...
...departing the country exceeded by 25,000 those returning home; two years earlier the gap was 11,200. About 90% of the dynamic comes from the pull of high-wage Australia. During last year's election campaign, Don Brash, leader of National, the main opposition party, argued that the exodus was caused by his country's miserable growth in incomes (which are one-third below Australia's, on average, after tax) despite a good economic performance under successive governments led by Labour Prime Minister Helen Clark. National, which lost narrowly, still believes that lowering taxes across...
...early January, Casey has been involved in what he called an “aggressive” faculty recruiting season. Even as his downstairs neighbor is preparing to move out of University Hall and University President Lawrence H. Summers is preparing to vacate Mass. Hall, Casey said the administrative exodus will not prevent him from bringing new faculty members to campus. “It presents some challenges,” Casey said. “However, the act of selecting scholars, the act of appointing new colleagues is the work of the Faculty and they do the searching...
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Congotronics 2 Various Artists Legend places the start of the Congolese “tradi-modern” scene with the exodus of rural musicians to Kinshasa, the bustling capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. To be heard above the urban roar, the story goes, bands had to create homemade amplification systems for their drums and “likembé” thumb pianos. They made microphones from old car parts, new electric guitars from cast-offs, and junk percussion from whatever they could find to keep the beat—hubcaps, tin cans, glass bottles. Last...