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...things are not right. From public anger over Mumbai's botched response to the 2008 terror attacks, to rising alarm over the Maoist insurgency across a wide stretch of central India, to the frustrations expressed in the biggest Bollywood hit ever - a 2009 film, 3 Idiots, that skewers the grade-obsessed higher-education system - India is a country ready for unflinching points of view. "India is not a poor country," Bissell says. "It's a poorly managed country...
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...Boom!" Leroy Hayes describes sitting in his seventh-grade English class at Philadelphia's Shoemaker Middle School when he heard the explosion. It was startling but not necessarily surprising, he says. Crazy stuff happened all the time at Shoemaker. Once, he recalls, a student urinated into a soda bottle during class and threw it in a math instructor's face. Crazy stuff. After hearing the big explosion, Hayes and his friends rushed out of the room and discovered that someone had set off fireworks in the corridor. "The school was in chaos," the 11th-grader remembers of the 2005 incident...