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...Chesterton once observed that America is a nation with the soul of a church. Bush's use of religious rhetoric seems to confirm this view. None of this is good news for Christians, however, because it tempts us to confuse Christianity with America. As a result, Christians fail to be what God has called us to be: agents of truthful speech in a world of mendacity. The identification of cross and flag after Sept. 11 needs to be called what it is: idolatry. We are often told that America is a great country and that Americans are a good people...
Japan Chucks in Its Clogs It's difficult to imagine how an amusement park built around windmills and giant wooden shoes could fail, but last week Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, became the country's third largest bankruptcy this year, with liabilities of $1.95 billion. With unemployment at record highs, people in the world's second-biggest economy are in no mood to play; indeed, the once-booming leisure industry is also responsible for the country's two largest bankruptcies. The fall of Huis Ten Bosch is most significant because it highlights Japan's banking...
...says one Lula friend, "he's more cautious about not flaming out and screwing up" like so many Latin lefties before him. In a closed-door meeting last month, Lula warned regional PT leaders, "We can't fail in this economic situation." Lula realizes that an erstwhile socialist has to work that much harder to prove he's a market-friendly President. Revenue gaps recently forced Palocci to slash $4 billion from the $75 billion budget (Brazil's most austere in a decade), while Meirelles raised interest rates 4.5 points to 26.5% in hopes of keeping 2003 inflation to single...
...students may opt to attend other schools within the area; in schools with adequate scores, high-scoring students may receive award money. Given these outcomes, the standardized tests are not just for assessment purposes. More correctly, they operate as high-stakes mechanisms of punishment and reward, for schools that fail or succeed according to the standards...
...staff supports heightening requirements for first-year students in their first semester without giving great pause to one of the main causes of poor performance—a lack of decent advising. Those students requiring a mid-semester withdrawal are the ones who stop attending classes, fail to complete their papers and problem sets, and do not study for exams. If the College offered better advising—requiring professors to file mid-term reports on all moderately and poor performing first-year students and having more frequent advising sessions that include particular focus on individual academic and emotional issues?...