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...Your article omitted two of the causes of behavioral problems among teenagers: school curricula that do not relate to actual life in today's society, and teachers who have been programmed to push information into pupils rather than develop their potential. Don't blame the kids! Gordon Rabey, Wellington...
...Brits have all but given up on our disaffected youth. Their surly demeanor and vicious behavior are a consummate failure of the Tony Blair-Gordon Brown era. The people who once famously claimed to be "tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime" chose instead to be even tougher on the victims of crime. Some young hooded lout threatens you or your family's safety, so you clip his ear, and an army of social workers springs to his defense while the full might and majesty of the law are brought down on you, with all the consequent...
...education center, public realm improvements, and workforce development programs. Several months have passed since Harvard issued a draft of the cooperation agreement to the Harvard Allston Task Force, but the document remains essentially unchanged, said University’s Chief Operating Officer for the Allston Development Group Christopher M. Gordon. Gordon, who signed the final document two weeks ago, said it includes more precise time frames for the implementation of benefits as well as more specific numbers on the costs of various programs. “The last few months have been spent mostly crossing...
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s New Labour Party is back in the immigration game. Last February, the UK government introduced a new, Australian-style points system for non-EU immigrants, requiring English language proficiency as well as education and earnings minimums for the right to stay. With a growing population of Pakistani and Bangladeshi Britons who are undereducated, unemployed, and low earners, the British government’s stance reflects a politically brave and long overdue acknowledgement that its postwar immigration policy was problematic. It also reflects the acknowledgment that past efforts to help groups who immigrated...
...FYROM. Instead, Scheffer announced a classic fudge. Albania and Croatia got their invitations, but Macedonia must wait until "a mutually acceptable solution" to its dispute with Greece has been found. Scheffer suggested this would be "very soon." "It's only delayed, it will happen," said Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown after the decision was announced. Since the dispute has lasted since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, and no resolution was found under the pressure of the summit, nobody is placing bets on when that will...