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...French government should pay for a group of student leaders to spend a couple of weeks in Yekaterinburg. It wouldn't cost much, since there's now a cheap direct flight to and from Paris operated by Ural Airlines (slogan: your dreams. our wings.) Yekaterinburg is Russia's fifth largest city, about the size of Marseilles and Lyons combined. Assuming the French students have an open mind, they should be astonished, unsettled and perhaps a little ashamed of what they find there. The under-25s in Yekaterinburg dress much the same way and listen to some of the same music...
...administrators balked at letting him back in. He had to wait until a new principal arrived before he could convince the school that he was serious about his new leaf. But now he had to catch up quickly on a lot of lost years. "I went back with a fifth-grade education," he says. "That was the last time I had paid attention in school...
...Though he will attend his class's graduation ceremony to watch his peers get diplomas, he won't be on stage, at least not yet. Even the school's efforts to speed up his credit recovery haven't been enough, so he will have to return for a fifth year at Shelbyville High. It's no fun for a 19-year-old to be in high school. Shawn is already a big guy who doesn't like to draw attention to himself...
...That is debatable, however. The majority of the population in the world's fifth largest oil exporter continues to support Chavez as he funnels billions of dollars of oil revenues into social programs for the poor. The opposition movement remains fragmented and has only presented one candidate for December's presidential elections. And since the largest opposition parties pulled out of last December's parliamentary elections in protest over the electoral system, the National Assembly is made up completely of Chavez's allies. All of which means that for the moment at least, Venezuela's middle-class protests...
CityStep has been serving schoolchildren and audiences of the Cambridge community for over two decades. The club teaches dance, along with self-expression and self-confidence, to fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-graders at six schools in the Cambridge area. Each year of instruction culminates in the annual performance of original works, choreographed and performed by the children and their instructors...