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...election is good for their country. Meanwhile, South Koreans, Indonesians and Japanese are not: 48%, 45% and 39%, respectively, think another Bush Administration will be bad news. When it comes to Iraq, Asians seem universally pessimistic. By as much as 2 to 1, respondents fear Bush will fail to stabilize the strife-torn country. In Japan, one of America's most important allies in the war, only 2.3% are confident that Bush can successfully win the peace...
...borrowed five times more from friends at higher rates. The cornerstones of such informal lending are relationships far stronger than Wu's connections to the bank. "If the bank repossesses my home, I'll have nowhere to live but I can still do business," he says. "But if I fail to repay my friends, I'll never do business in this town again...
...RCDI, the ensuing values-related discussion barely scratched the surface of the real issue,” he said. “I think that the worst thing that can happen now is if we pat ourselves on the back for starting this important discussion and then fail to follow up with a serious, probing dialogue about where to go from here...
...talk to people and get them to agree that excessive drinking does diminish the quality of life in our community, and what are people prepared to do to address the issue,” Barreira said. “Until we do that, every program we do will fail because there won’t be a receptive audience...
...this intellectual past by getting you far away from the present and the mindless celebrity worship and inane pop culture that dominates it. Colleges should create an environment and shape a curriculum that maximizes exposure to the great works and the great thinkers of the Western tradition. Colleges fail in this purpose when they distract their students with courses focused on trivial subjects that have nothing to do with important works of the past. This is not to say that there’s no merit in studying current cultural practices or phenomena; but time in college is limited...